GOOD WILL CUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 224, 21 September 1935, Page 10

GOOD WILL CUP.

TEST FO,OTBALL TROPHY.

INTERNATIONAL SYMBOL.

Included in the baggage of tho Australian Rugby League team which arrived by the Monterey was a large parcel under tho special care of one of the managers, Mr. Harry Sunderland. It proved to contain tho various parts of the Courtney Good Will Cup, given by Mr. Roy Courtney, of Cliristchurch, and made to his design in Australia for annual competition between Australia and New Zealand. First possession of this magnificent trophy, which will be exhibited in the city during the next few days, will be decided as the result of tho three Tests, the first of which is to bo played at Auckland next Saturday. A plate on tlie handsome three feet long by two feet wide kauri base for the cup bears the inscription that the Courtney Good AVill Cup is to mark Rugby League Test supremacy and will bo played in New Zealand and Australia alternately.

Standing about 20 inclies high on dark tulip wood, which in turn is on a subbase of Queensland silky oak, timber with a delightful marble-like grain, the cup is adorned by flagged goal posts under which is a silver football balanced 011 a boomerang. Two large silver fern pungas stand each side of the cup and separate ornaments screwed on the base at each corner are the figure of a Maori chieftain holding a greenstone mere, an Australian aborigine, a kiwi and a kangaroo.

The trophy must bo one of the most artistic sporting symbols even seen in New Zealand and it is not surprising that it has won high praise in Australia,