THE "MILLS" TROPHY
FOR YACHT-RACING IN "WELLINGTON. The coimiu'Kee Port Nicholson Yacht Club has been advised that the late. Mr. Evelyn C. E. Mills (London representative for Messrs. E. W. Mills' and Co.) made provision in his will for a sixty-guinea competition silver cup for tho Port Nicholson Yacht Club, of which lie was a former Commodore. The late Mr. Mills was, in his j'ounger days, an ardent yachtsman, being one of the spirits that kept yachting alivo in Wellington when it was threatened with extincton. He, was a fine hand at the tiller himself, and was a sportsman through' and through. In his will, Mr. Mills stipulated that the oup was to bo made in London and sent out to the P.N.'Y.C., to bo raced for in Wellington harbour by first-class I yachts every season. Beforo the Mills Chip can ho won outright it must be won three times in succession or five times at intervals. ■ The club has decided that it will be raced for tliis season on a date yet to be arranged.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2919, 3 November 1916, Page 8
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176THE "MILLS" TROPHY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2919, 3 November 1916, Page 8
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