Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Opening
Lot 2846 SESSION 10 (11.30AM WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER) Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Opening of
Estimate $350
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PLUNKET ROOMS (PAHIATUA), presentation key, 1926, in silver (95x28mm), with unknown maker's mark, obverse inscribed 'Plunket/Rooms/Pahiatua/23rd Sept./1926', reverse iscribed 'Presented To/The Hon J.A.Young/Minister/of/Health'. Extremely fine.
At the official opening of the new Plunket room, dental clinic and ladies rest room, which are housed in a ferro-concrete building in Main Street, Pahiatua, excellent weather prevailed and a large crowd of town and country residents was present. The Minister of Health was absent owing to illness, and his place was taken by Dr. M.H.Watt, Deputy-Director-General of the Department of Health.
See also lots 2842-45, 2848-50, 2852, 2866, 3395 to the same recipient.
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