MOASCAR CUP PLINTH

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 9

MOASCAR CUP PLINTH

DESTROYED IN A, FIRE

. . (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evoriing Post.")

PAL-MEE-STON-N-.,-18th June,

The cftL-thquake. in Ilawkes ,;Bay. ,-,was responsible for1 ■-• the ' deßtruetibtt of the plinth of the Moascar Cup—the premier secondary school- Rugby trophy o£ the Dominion-7-and with it wont the. original record of,the Ijuircl.holders-,over a^priqd; of years.... . ........ ~ . ~..,.„_..

"It is not ..the loss ,of the..record that is to be re^totted, i'or that. can .easily be replaced, but the plinth was ..made from! the propeller of an aeroplane;used in .the Great War and had associated with it, all' the glorious "history of the; cup itself," stated the manager of the Te Aut'e Native College football team in announcing tho news to a reporter. ::.:■'.'':■ '-■:. The trophy having, been won.agnin by Te. Ante.last-year,-ho said, the,i>linth had been- forwarded- to- a NapieLv jeweller to have the usual - silver .shield - record inscribed on it when the 'quake occurred and fire destroyed the! premises wherein it was housed—thus ' .severing..aylink-.--in tho history connected With the Moascar Cup. ; '■■• .I' 7 ■••■. ;; " . ;'.; ! '

The trophy; taking its name ' froin'a military camp,'was won by tli'e New Zealand Mounted Brigade in Kgypt, "even-, tually being presented•to the.secondary schools of the Dominion lor competition.