THE CORONATION MEDALS.
[Per Pbess Association.] WELLINGTON, March 14. The Minister of Education (the Hon George Fowlds) is not very sympathetic with the Christchurch Trades and Labour Council's protest against an English firm being awarded the contract for supplying the Coronation medals for the schoolchildren of Now Zealand. "When a reporter asked for his opinion, he stated that on previous occasions New Zealand manufacturers had been given the contract, with the result '' that wo had to pay a great deal more for the medals, and they were nothing approaching _ the standard of those we had submitted to us from Home." "It stands to reason," he continued, "that where the-medals are being issued in large numbers and with the conveniences they have in England it is not possible to get anything approaching the same standard for anything like the same money in New Zealand. Personally, I was in favour of getting them made locally if it was possible to get anything like the same standard, but on previous occasions we have had to pay several hundreds more for the local medals than we are paying this time, but although they cost more than the imported article they were so unattractive that the children woxild not wear them."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10103, 15 March 1911, Page 1
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206THE CORONATION MEDALS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 10103, 15 March 1911, Page 1
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