Games symbol for shipping corp.

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 18

Games symbol for shipping corp.

The distinctive red, white and blue Commonwealth Games symbol is to be used by the New Zealand Shipping Corporation, the chairman of the Games Organising Committee (Mr R. S. Scott) announced last night.

He said that the committee had given approval in principle today for the corporation to use the symbol.

Mr Scott said that the symbol would figure prominently on the funnels and flags of the corporation’s ships and on a wide range of other material. The copyright of the

symbol, designed in a public competition, resides in British Commonwealth Games, Ltd, a company set up and answerable to the committee. The company enables the committee to trade legally.

Mr Scott said no long term policy for the symbol had yet been formed. Committee members wished the symbol to be used to New Zealand’s best advantage, and the committee might eventually transfer the copyright of the symbol to the Government, Mr Scott said.

Selection of the Games emblem bv the New Zealand Shipping Corporation was an honour for Christchurch and the Commonwealth Games, the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr N. G. Pickering) said last evening.

"I am delighted, and the choice is worthy recognition of a striking .symbol. The emblem, already known throughout the Commonwealth, will now be known throughout the world,” he said.