Bledisloe Trophy.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1935, Page 4

Bledisloe Trophy.

The Bledisloe aviation trophy, presented to the New Zealand Aero Club by Lord Bledisloe as a parting gift and for the encouragement of aviation is at present in view at New Plymouth in a Devon Street shop window. It is to be competed for annually by pilots who gained their licenses in the year immediately preceding the competition. Of magnificent design and execution, the trophy stands nearly 30 inches high on its massive pleuth, which bears gold laurel leaves and a gold lion in each corner. There is also the Latin inscription, “Sic Itur Ad Astra,” and about the base the engraved words, “Presented by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, for Airmanship, landing and navigation, Christmas, 1934.” Courtesy in Business.

“I have never been in any othej country where what might be called sentiment has been so much lavished on me in shops and offices as in th* United States,” said the Rev. Thomas Tait, at a luncheon given by the Auckland Rotary Club. Mr. Tait’s subject Was, “Some Impressions of Canada anti America.” Mr. Tait, who was formerly in charge of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Christchurch, spent nearly sever years in Canada, and travelled exten sively in the United States. “It is a commercialisation of sentiment, but I massay I appreciated it, in spite of its rathe: fictional value,” Mr. Tait said. ‘ I cannot remember ever being treated brusquely in a shop or office, and this painstaking courtesy certainly makes the wheels of industry run smoothly.”

An announcement is made in this issue of the sale of pedigree Tamworth and Berkshire pigs which Newton King Ltd. are selling at their haymarket sale at 12 noon on Saturday on behalf of the “Hollyvale” Stud.*