OTAKI SHIELD WINNER
SCOTTISH YOUTH'S VISIT DEPARTURE BY RANGITATA After visiting a number of North Island centres in the course of a month's stay in New Zealand, Alexander W. Thomson, third winner of the Otaki Shield, is expected to arrive in Auckland to-day from Hamilton. Aged 18 rears, the youth is making the round*voyage from England in the New Zealand' Shipping Company's liner Rangitata, which will leave Auckland on Thursday on the return journey to London. The Otaki Shield was presented for annual competition among pupils of the Robert Gordon College, Aberdeen, by relatives of the late. Lieutenant Archibald Bisset Smith, V.C., who was in command of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Otaki when she was sunk by the Gerlnan raider Moewe in March, 1017.
The award, which is given annually to the most outstanding bov in scholarship, athletics, leadership and general qualifications, was supplemented by tho New Zealand Shipping Company with a free trip to the Dominion. Thomson, who is a Ihigbv player and was champion schoolboy sprinter of Scotland. is the first of the three holders of the shield to visit Otaki, the town from which tho shield derives its name. He was invited there by the Mayor and council.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23430, 21 August 1939, Page 11
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