THE OTAKI SHIELD.
WINNER ARRIVES THIS MONTH
(Per Press Association),
WELLINGTON, July 4
The Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) announced to-day that Alexander W. Thomson, this year’s winner of the Otaki Shield, ail annual competition among pupils of .the Robert Gordons College, Aberdeen, will arrive in New Zealand tins month and will be granted free travel facilities by the New Zealand Government. The Shield commemorates the sinking of the steamer Otaki during the war by the German raider Moewe. The Otaki, however, put up a splendid fight and severely damaged the raider before she sank.
The Otaki was commanded by Captain A. B. Smith, V.C., an old pupil of the Robert Gordons College, whose relatives endowed the shield, which "carries with it a voyage to New Zealand.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 224, 5 July 1939, Page 2
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