ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 139, 13 June 1911, Page 7

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON.

PRIZE NIGHT. 1 REMARKS BY THE GOVERNOR. The annual distribution of prizes in connection with the Royal New Zealand* Yacht .Squadron took place in the club I rooms. m_een-st., last night, under vice- I regal patronage, his Kxcelieney the Governor l.i-rd Islington, accompanied by I Gapt. ___cDo_gali, A.D.C.. attending. ! His Excellency was welcomed by the I o.mmod..re, Mr. J. L. R. Bloom__ld, a ver-c of the National Anthem being! meanwhile played. There was a large I attendance of memt>ers, who were seated j in small groups at tables distributed j round the room. The first part of the evening was given over to a concert j prnp-amme. the contributors being Mr. ! I". iv Bennett, son..'-. Mr. F. S. McLean, 1 'cello solo; Mr. 1-. -S. Gardner, recitation and musical monologue; Mr. P. Dun- j can, song; Mr. O. K. Farrow, song; Mr. ('. Richardson, song. Messrs. W. Winkle- ' niann and G. Shorland played the accoic- j paniments. His Excellency then presented tbe j prizes won during the season, as follow: First cruising rar-c: Rawcnc i Mr. A. K. iflilYord) 1. Ariki (P.. C. Bkimfield) _. I j Power launch cruising race: Winsome j (Mr. F. -T. Copper) 1. Tahatu (Mr. J. j Hodgponl _. Ocean race: Marangi (Mr. F. le llmiuet) 1. Flawenc |Mr. A. E. Giffor.ii 2. Ariki (Mr. K. (.'. PJomfi_ld) 3. General handicap: Aorer. til. N. Phillipson) 1. "Windmill (Geddcs Bros.) 2. I Victory (dagger Bros.) 3. Second cruisI ing race-. Aorere (Mr. H. N. Phillrpson) 11. Rawene (Mr. A. K. Gifford) 2, Kotiri ! I Mr. J. B. Johnson) 3. The toast of ""The King" having been honoured. Mr. Bloom field proposed the toast of "The Governor," and referred to the interest bis Excellency took in yachting. While it was due to Lord Ratrfurly that they had their charter, they had to -,-. back :J7 years to ftrwl a. governor taking that active interest in yachting that Lord Islington was known t< do. He felt that in view of the inducements here, our fine harbour, etc.. yachting was not in the state it should be. ami therefore he f-e-lt that the fact of his Excellency showing genuine and practical interest in the sport would help it along materially. ln reply, the Governor, after expressing his appre,iation of the enthusiastic manner in which he had been received, said he remembered with pleasure the fine welcome tbe Au-ckland yachtsmen gave him on the harbour not long since. Though he could not claim to be a corn- ' yachtsman, yet he c-ouj 1 lay claim to being'an enthusiastic follower 'of the sport. He did not think there ■ was any place in the world to beat the ' harbour and surroundings of Auckland ■ for comfortable and enjoyable cruising. ' He had not been -able to do much cruis- ; ing this season, but next season he ' hoped to come up earlier. He hoped the squadron would engage him for 1 '"long official duties, yachting.*' With - reference to the cup he had presented, ' his Excellency said hi. object in present- " Lng that cup was to give encouragement " to yachting. After consultation with Commodore Bloomtiehl. he had decided ' that the cup should be for class racing. ! Certainly class racing was not in vogue 3 here, but, as the commodore pointed out. - 1 class racing, which was the best tes-t 1 of boats, might come in. But if, after a ! season or two, he found that this did ; not come a.bout, he would confer with ' the' commodore with a view to allotting ' the cup to some other type of vessel for ' competition. 1 The proceedings terminated with all " present singing "Auld Tang Syne."

I At last evening's meetim: of the City . L.unoil (rcpo-rtd our Christchurch correspondent) a letter was received from t-io j LhrisU-lmrch brandi of tiie New Zealand ' (.iuvoin_:ent State Fir e Insurance Lhtice ! ir. rnrn-d to the Cov.ncU's request that the ' rr.ra.i_i:; ot uitv areas r-Cen.U tilted ' ,-,i[; til." high-pressure water supply ' -should be eon.-idered. stating that the ! matter would bo referred to Wellington ias soon as the ih eision of the Fire Underwriters' Association, wlvi_h wn- considering liie matter, v. a? made kniivn. Mr. F. Burgoyne, one of the Labour rnernbera said that it was extraordinary that '■ a State Department s-hould wait to see | what the private company would <i ). because in' re'j-irde.l such a statement as a ,I',-,-et a-l:ni:-slo'.i that the Department «a'eontrollo.l by the rrivntn e.imprinics. He moved that the Council shnuM s'ronjr 1 -. i.rnten a.ain-c the department-! action. Mr. H. Hunter, also a Lnbour Representative, seconded tiie motion. .Mr. J. -1. l)au_all said that it was premature to endeavour to indie-te to a State Department especially as it could not act until I the Council supplied it 'with certain in- ' formation -which could not be jriven. On a vote resulting in a tie the Mayor gave I his casting vote for tike proposal and it I was carried.