SILVER CUP FOR PILOTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 12 March 1931, Page 5

SILVER CUP FOR PILOTS.

SIR HENRY WIGRAM'S GIFT. V- iA 'lilyer cUptiiag: been presetted , to the NijlK Club claVs firl^ : i>atrbri; J Wigravn, The oup will be for annual competitive among the club-trained -pilots of the. Dominion, under conditions to b« tio-. cided each year by the council ofj/thedttb, will, oFklieclub is carried out. be known as the' "Wigram Oup. , The .first competition for the oup will . be held'at the official . North Island pageant, to be held at Masterton on Saturday, 51 when the oup will he awarded to the winner of the-,"A" pilots' landing competition,' open to members of. all .clubs-.affiliated to, the New Zealand Aero dub. The club of which the winner i& a member will receive the cup; while the winner himself will receive* from the New Zealand ,Aero Club » miniature replica of it for permanent keeping. <> Canterbury will be .represented. at .the pageant by three, machines, with Captain J., 0. Mercer/'-and Messrs N.' >H. J. J. Buseh, and K. Johnston. Messrs Busch tfnd Johnston t are t both , club-trained, pilots holding A .grade licenses,., and both will - compete for :the Wigram Cup. , ' ■