Ham and Petersham Rifle and Pistol Club - The Championship (New Zealand) Shield and its history

The Championship (New Zealand) Shield and its history

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History

This is an extract from the 7th Annual report of the Club, for the year ending 31st December 1912

A Championship Trophy Shield has been presented to the Club by Mr. Douglas McLean of New Zealand. The following is a full description of this beautiful and valuable Shield. The Club is greatly indebted to the giver.

This Shield which is of silver is mounted on a specimen piece of finest New Zealand Wood known as the Mottled Kauri with the Fern leaf above. It carries the English and New Zealand flags. At the top is a copy of a native Maori House with a model of the wingless bird called the Kiwi. Below this is a fine figure in silver of a Sharpshooter in the act of firing. Engraved on it are combined Maori and British weapons and it is surrounded by fern leaves and ribbon to act as Inscribing plates.

There is a beautiful small model of a Maori Chief carrying a piece for (sic) the famous New Zealand Greenstone or jade stone.

At the bottom is a Tika charm made from greenstone which formerly hung round the neck of a Maori warrior and is emblematical of good luck.

The motto on the shield is "Fight on for ever and ever."

" Ake-Ake."

The explanation of the motto is an incident which took place during the Maori wars.

Some Maori's in a "Pah" (a Maori fort) were called upon to surrender on the understanding that their wives and children should be allowed to walk out unmolested. Immediately the summons was made a Maori woman sprung up and used these now historic words

" Fight on for ever and ever."

The Maori words "Ake Ake " signify.

Mr. Douglas McLean the giver of the Shield has been a member of the Club since its inception in 1906.

As a great friend of the Hon. Algernon and Mrs. Tollemache for many years he passed his holidays at Ham House during the time he was in England whilst at school.

He states that he carried away with him the pleasantest reminiscences of Ham, its inhabitants and its beautiful neighbourhood and that he is proud to call himself a Ham boy.

He is always deeply interested in anything connected with the District.

He is now one of the largest landed proprietors in New Zealand and is the son of the well known and famous Sir DonaId LcLean who was over 35 years the "Minister of Natives " in New Zealand.

The cessation of the Maori troubles and strife with the ultimate pacification of the country was due almost entirely to his Father's great influence with the natives and his acknowledged tact and discretion.

It is owing to this circumstance that the country has been able to enjoy for many years peace and prosperity and thus develop and become the splendid Dominion of New Zealand.

In 1932 it was decided to help members who could not shoot in all the competitions comprising the Championship by only counting the best four of the five competitions.

It is thought at the moment, that the Shield was presented in 1912 and that the Winners in previous years were then added to the shield. This accounts for the fact that the first winner is wrong according to the contemporary press report in the Surrey Comet of the 1906 Annual Dinner

Winners

Winner	Year	Winner	Year	Winner	Year
	2002		2001		2000
R A Philips	1999	W P Baird	1998	I Potts	1997
I Potts	1996	J Earley	1995	J Earley	1994
K A Parr	1993	I Potts	1992	G C Pope	1991
G C Pope	1990	J Cottrill	1989	G C Pope	1988
M Habershon	1987	M Habershon	1986	M Habershon	1985
D Grollman	1984	I Wallace	1983	I Tighe-Ford	1982
R Fisk	1981	M Habershon	1980	M Habershon	1979
M Habershon	1978	M Raw	1977	J Fardon	1976
R V Hendry	1975	Mrs S Carveth	1974	Mrs S Carveth	1973
Mrs C Furzer	1972	Mrs C Furzer	1971	P Waxman	1970
P Waxman	1969	Mrs C Furzer	1968	Mrs C Furzer	1967
G C Pope	1966	G C Pope	1965	J Fardon	1964
J Fardon	1963	B Hope	1962	R Baker	1961
C Phillips	1960	J Fardon	1959	V M W Starling	1958
C Phillips	1957	S B Cranmer	1956	J Fardon	1955
J Fardon	1954	V H Gilbert	1953	H J Donovan	1952
No Winner	1951	J Fardon	1950	R W Lee	1949
S Broughton	1948	E Stemp	1947	G Flexmore	1946
V H Gilbert	1945	H J Donovan	1944	R L Saunders	1943
J A R Cranmer	1942	E Stemp	1941	E Stemp	1940
A V Bugler	1939	E Stemp	1938	A V Bugler	1937
M R Harris	1936	A V Bugler	1935	J Lomax	1934
A S Guthrie	1933	H D Buck	1932	H D Buck	1931
S E Lowndes	1930	L D Brooks	1929	L D Brooks	1928
H D Buck	1927	L D Brooks	1926	L D Brooks	1925
Lt Col C Alington	1924	L D Brooks	1923	H S Longhurst	1922
L D Brooks	1921	H J Taylor	1920	N S Stuart	1919
W Collins	1918	T H Wright	1917	J Warner	1916
Miss K May	1915	W Collins	1914	W Collins	1913
B Schon	1912	J Warner	1911	Miss Ellen Seaton	1910
J Warner	1909	J Warner	1908	G S Powell	1907
E Thorne	1906

History

This is an extract from the 7th Annual report of the Club, for the year ending 31st December 1912

A Championship Trophy Shield has been presented to the Club by Mr. Douglas McLean of New Zealand. The following is a full description of this beautiful and valuable Shield. The Club is greatly indebted to the giver.

There is a beautiful small model of a Maori Chief carrying a piece for (sic) the famous New Zealand Greenstone or jade stone.

At the bottom is a Tika charm made from greenstone which formerly hung round the neck of a Maori warrior and is emblematical of good luck.

The motto on the shield is "Fight on for ever and ever."

" Ake-Ake."

The explanation of the motto is an incident which took place during the Maori wars.

Some Maori's in a "Pah" (a Maori fort) were called upon to surrender on the understanding that their wives and children should be allowed to walk out unmolested. Immediately the summons was made a Maori woman sprung up and used these now historic words

" Fight on for ever and ever."

The Maori words "Ake Ake " signify.

Mr. Douglas McLean the giver of the Shield has been a member of the Club since its inception in 1906.

As a great friend of the Hon. Algernon and Mrs. Tollemache for many years he passed his holidays at Ham House during the time he was in England whilst at school.

He states that he carried away with him the pleasantest reminiscences of Ham, its inhabitants and its beautiful neighbourhood and that he is proud to call himself a Ham boy.

He is always deeply interested in anything connected with the District.

He is now one of the largest landed proprietors in New Zealand and is the son of the well known and famous Sir DonaId LcLean who was over 35 years the "Minister of Natives " in New Zealand.

The cessation of the Maori troubles and strife with the ultimate pacification of the country was due almost entirely to his Father's great influence with the natives and his acknowledged tact and discretion.

It is owing to this circumstance that the country has been able to enjoy for many years peace and prosperity and thus develop and become the splendid Dominion of New Zealand.

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