"FOR SERVICES"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 12

"FOR SERVICES"

>:;; r BRONZE .MEDAL souvenir :...An interesting souvenir in the possession of Mrs. 'E.' J. Moore, of Bid■wellstreet, Wellington;, widow of the lateVMrT w. E. Moore, is a bronze me2&!£ommemora'tiVe of the great In--d«gs.r4ftl Exhibition of All Nations, ;heH in-London in May, 1851. The 'medal was presented to Mr. Moore's •father, the late Captain P. G. Moore, ;s>^~-jprince'Albert, the present King's greatgrandfather, and Earl Granville, of services rendered.- . ;'iCaptain Moore, who died in 1893, was one of Wellington's oldest identities/having arrived here in.the Bengal Merchant in 1840. In 1851 he took ■t.o Englanil the first New Zealand exhibits to the .London Exhibition, and 'through. the Royal Commissioners he was able to make a fine display of produce arid other articles collected by the •early' colonists of New Zealand. On thjg,.obverse'side of the medal the profile of Prince Albert is shown, and on -the reverse there is the inscription, "For Services," Together with the of the- exhibition.' Captain Moore's name is inscribed round the border. . .

"JCSpfain Moore was a kinsman of GfeniStaJ: Sir John Moore, and it is interesting to recall that he was one of the first colonists'; to advUcatc steam aavigatiba for Ne,w Zealand. , ,