OPENING OF THE BOATING SEASON.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 245, 18 October 1886, Page 2

OPENING OF THE BOATING SEASON.

The boating season was formally opened on Saturday afternoon last by a procession of rowing boats and sailing vessels in the harbour. Never before, probably, except on the occasion'of a regatta, has there been such a fine turn-out, and it augurs well lor ;he Buccoes of coming events in tho aquatic iino. Shortly before 3 p.m. tho harbour was dotted from one end to the other with sailing- vessels and- rowing boats of all descriptions, the weather being all that could bo desired, and tho whi.rves boro many hundreds of spectators. At 3 p.m. the processien formodoffthe end of the Railway Wharf, and procoeded up the harbour in single iile, in tho following order : -Auckland Navals, Ponsonby Navala,and North Shore Navals, in their three handsomo suttore, then whaleboat crews,-North Shore, 1 ; Ponsonby, 2 ; St. George's, 2 ; West End.l ; City Rowing Club, 2 ; scratch crew, 1. Then folio wed the club string-tests, Ponsonby having two orewa. West End . two crew?, St. George's onocrew, after which came half-a dozen Bob Roy canoes, and_ a largo number of rowing skiflk occupied by Club representatives and other?. Tho procession took a course paat the end of Queen-street Wharf, rounded the schooner Olive off Freeman's Bay, and then formed in a straight line extending north and south. The crows coming on abreast in very good order presented a very pretty sight. After passing the Railway Wharf again the boats separated, and cruised around independently. North Shore sent only one crew in the whaloboat out, and Waitemata was not represented at all.