PRESENTATION TO N.Z.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 8

PRESENTATION TO N.Z.

SILVER LOVING-CUP

THE GIRDLERS COMPANY

(Received July 24, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 23. The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. Jordan, received from the Master of the Girdlers Company, Sir William Barber, a silver replica of a loving-cup which has been in the company's possession for 300 years. In a speech, Sir JVilliam Barber pointed out that New Zealand had adopted as its mother church m London the Church of Saint Lawrence Jewry, which for centuries had been the mother church of the Girdlers Company, thus demonstrating the bond of sympathy which existed between the Dominion and the ancient guild. Mr. Jordan, in replying, said: "The Girdlers Company gave us a lead in 1344 by the principles which found expression in New Zealand laws six centuries later, including that under which no one in trade shall work on Saturday, no one shall sell wares on Sunday, and inferior material shall not be used in the manufacture of wares."

He added that the cup would be placed in the library of the New Zealand House of Parliament.

The cup is eleven inches high, and the bowl/has a matted ground. Four panels recording the date of presentation, the reasons for the presentation, the names of Mr. Fraser, Mr. Jordan, Sir William Barber, and the wardens of the company, surround the rosewood plinth.

Those present at the function included Mr. W. J. Fraser, brother of the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

The Girdlers Companjr made the sash which the King wore at his coronation.