A MISUNDERSTANDING
RIDDIFORD CUP CONDITIONS. With reference to the statement made by the principal of Nelson College regarding the recent competition for the Riddiford Cup, the following explanation was issued on Saturday by the Defence Department: “Tho ‘Riddiford Cup Competition’ was carried out under the same conditions as for last year, when Nelson College won and Scots College were runnere-np. The programme was sent to all competing schools some weeks before the judging took place. After the award was published Nelson brought forward the point that the strength of Scots College was below 100. The conditions for the Riddiford Cup do not make it necessary that a school should be of the strength of 100 or more; if this were done, 38 per cent, of secondary schools could not compete. The conditions for the Campbell Statuette Competition—which is for cadet companies other than secondary schools —do insist that a competing unit should be 100 or more, and the conditions for the Passmore Shield, for which secondaiy schools used to compete, includes this also. Hence, apparently, arose the misunderstanding referred to hy Air Broad.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11704, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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