LORD RLEDISLOE'S CUP

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3758, 29 June 1932, Page 5

LORD RLEDISLOE'S CUP

BEAUTIFUL m’OBV TROPHY ABIUYFS AT AV OK LAND NEW ZEALAND - AUSTBALIA TESTS Per Press Association. Auckland. June 28. The (Tip presented hy the Oover-noi-General. Lord Bledisloe. as a tro--1 Tin lor Test Uiitfby matches between Xew Zealand and Auckland has arrived in Auckland from Englan l. Tito clip is one of the most handsome presented in .Xew Zealand. It is of sterling: silver and is surmounted hy a silver Rugby football. The eliasing oil the lid is an interweaving <1 Xew Zealand fern and Australian gum nuts and leaves, in high relief. Engraved on the front of the cup are tlic arms of - Xew Zealand, the arms of Australia being on the reverse si !e. The chasing around the base is ail intermingling of Australian wattle flowers and Xew Zealand lv< wliai flowers in relief. The height of tin cup. irrespective f.i' the plinth. is 28in. it is 25in. in width and weighs 2t)ooz. The substantial oak plinth is surrounded hy LT» shields for tlu* names of the winning country in each series mi games. The- cup is to he known as tlu* Ith lisloe (Tip. and is engraved as follows.: “P.reseiilcd hy Lord Bledisloe, (Jovernor-deneraJ of Xew Zealand.