SUMMER TIME ACT
A NOVEL COMMEMORATION
AWARD OF SIDEY MEDAL (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The final step in a movement to commemorate the part taken by Sir Thomas Sidey in the passing of the Summer Time Act by Parliament will be taken at the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute to-morrow, when the deeds and conditions attaching to the awarding of the Sidey Medal will be signed.
This award, it is hoped, will become one of the most notable in New Zealand. It will be given with a sum of money to paper or other work considered to be the most outstanding contribution to the advantages not only of summer time, but also to the value of light and its allied properties to human welfare. The specific conditions attaching to the award will be made known at a meeting of the Board of Governors.
The origin of the movement’s efforts dates from the passing of the Act in 1927. As a result of shilling donations throughout the country the sum of £5OO was raised. This was handled by the Summer Time Committee in Wellington and it was later handed ovei’ to the New Zealand Institute, which was asked to devise a method for spending it usefully. Sir Thomas will be present at the function to-day. He has contributed £l2O towards the cost of the medal.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 123, 19 May 1932, Page 3
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