LADY GODLEY CUPS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 57, 1 April 1946, Page 2

LADY GODLEY CUPS

SHOOTING TROPHIES LOST WHEREABOUTS SOUGHT An effort is now being made by the Army to locate the present whereabouts of three silver cups used as trophies for competitions from 1911 onwards until approximately 1930. The cups were competed for by Cadet companies in training under the Compulsory Training Scheme then in operation.

In the year of Sir lan Hamilton’s visit to New Zealand (in 1911) the ladies of New Zealand presented to the different , Cadet Coys. Silver Cups to encourage shooting among the boys. The money was raised under the auspices of Mrs Godley and the cups were known as the “Mrs Godley Cups.” When Mrs Godley received the title of “Lady” the cups became known as the “Lady Godley Cups.” The senior Cadet of each Coy. making the highest score in the Classification Practice of the annual course held the Coy. challenge cup (that is the Lady Godley Cup) for the year. When Cadet Training ceased in 1930 the cups were called in and re-allocated to schools or passed back to Ordnance Store.

Later, it became known that three cups in Area 2 were “not traced” and the attention of readers is drawn to the effort now being made to retrieve these cups and to re-allocate them for competition amongst the present school Cadet units within the Area.

As all the cups are engraved they can, if in existence, .be easily identified, and it is hoped that the present holders will communicate with the Army authorities at Paeroa or Tauranga and that as a result the missing cups can once more resume their tour of usefulness this time in the realm of School Cadet Training,