What sport is the Bledisloe Cup awarded annually?
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe and his willingness to use the title "king" without reticence. Bledisloe also promoted various causes and events by the presentation of trophies. The most famous of these being the Bledisloe Cup, the trophy for an ongoing rugby union competition between New Zealand and Australia, first awarded in 1931, and currently contested annually. He also initiated New Zealand Chess Federation interclub championship trophy, also called the Bledisloe Cup. He was a freemason. During his term as Governor-General (1930-1935), he was also Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee
Bledisloe Cup Nations was abbreviated that year to minimise interference with the teams' preparations for the World Cup. In 2008 it was announced that the Bledisloe Cup would be contested over an unprecedented four matches, with three games played in Australia and New Zealand and a fourth and potentially deciding game in Hong Kong in an effort to promote the game in Asia (the first time Australia and New Zealand played in a third country outside the World Cup). The Hong Kong match, which drew a crowd of 39,000 to see the All Blacks (which had already clinched the Bledisloe Cup) defeat