MERCANTILE MARINE CUP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 20

MERCANTILE MARINE CUP

The annual pulling contest for the Mercantile Marine Cup among such shipping as is in Wellington Harbour at the time is to be held on Easter Saturday afternoon in conjunction with.the Sea Scouts' regatta. The trophy was presented in 1927 for competition among ships' crews by the New Zealand Shipping Company, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, and the Commonwealth and Dominion Line. It is competed for by crews of eight in lifeboats. If the wind is southerly the race is held over a course from the band rotunda in Oriental Bay to the Clyde Quay Wharf, and if the wind is from the north the course is from the Pipitea Wharf to the Clyde Quay Wharf. ■ The cup was won last year by the Commonwealth and Dominion liner Port Alma, and it is hoped that the Port Curtis will be able to defend the Commonwealth and Dominion Line's claim to the trophy. If the cup is won for three years in succession by ships belonging to one company it will become the property of that company. Only one house has up to the present won the cup for two years in succession—the New Zealand Shipping Company.

A remand for one week was granted by Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court today in the case of Francis Henry Gordon Guildford, a bookbinder, aged 41, 'who was charged with stealing jewellery valued at &5, the property of persons unknown. Bail was refused.