Coronation Medal Omissio[?]
p. 146 · Read in the full issue
—and Heart Burnings
From Our Own Correspondent CRITICISM was being voiced many quarters in Fiji duri] June following publication the names of 133 persons award' the Queen’s Coronation Medal.
Many who had worked exceptio: ally hard in connection with t] Coronation celebrations were n included. Government Department heads who, it was said, had hi little or nothing to do with t] work involved, were mentioned.
Some considered that the mai who had devoted considerable tin and energy to Red Cross and oth voluntary work after the 1952 hu ricane might also have be< included. About 100 of the awan were made to civil servants.
The Public Relations Office, reply to some newspaper corre pendents, said that the medal wi primarily a service medal, and ‘ personal souvenir from Her Majes to persons in the Crown Servio and others in the United Kingdo and other parts of the Commoi wealth and Empire.”