School & Education Awards
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Lot 2120 Day 2 School & Education Awards
Estimate $500
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OAMARU MIDDLE SCHOOL, 1891, Dux medal, hand engraved in silver with gold centre (45x52mm), no maker, ring top suspension, obverse inscribed 'Dux/1891/Charles Jones', reverse inscribed 'Presented/By/Jas. Holmes Esq.'. Extremely fine.
Mr James Stuart Holmes, Chairman of the Oamaru Harbour Board, was the second surviving son of the late Hon M. Holmes, M.L.C., and was born at Geelong, Victoria, in 1847. He was educated at Edinburgh University, and arrived in New Zealand in December, 1864. From 1885, Mr Holmes was in charge of the Awamoa estate; he was a member of the Oamaru Harbour Board from 1886, and chairman from 1895. He was for a short time a member of the Waitaki County Council, and was for many years connected with the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association, as a member of the committee.
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