400 YACHTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 204, 29 August 1934, Page 8

400 YACHTS.

PHOTOS AT MUSEUM.

SHIPS AND COASTAL CRAFT.

HALF CENTURY OF PROGRESS

An exhibition of over 400 photographs illustrating the progress of yachting in Auckland during the past 50 years, together with views of deep-water ships, coastal craft, and scenes familiar to yachtsmen, will be opened at the Museum on Friday next.

The collection includes the best yachting studies of the late Mr. Henry Winkelmann, also photographs of squarerigged ships and other merchant vessels by Mr. Jas. H. Kinnear, a number of yachting views lent by Messrs. Arch. Logan and Tom Kelfoyle and Mrs. Porter, also birds and other, natural history, studies lent by Mr. R. A. Falla, and sketches of islands and bays by Mr. A. B. W. Powell.

The exhibition will be opened on Friday at 8 p.m. by Mr. H. E. Vaile, vice-president of the Museum council. It" will be continued until September 10, and no charge is to be made for admission. .

Among the earliest pictures are two coloured sketches dated 1877, showing a race' between open boats of the earliest type. Next in order are photographs of the Arawa, Jessie Logan and Masher, built in the early 'eighties. A view taken -by the late Sir John Logan Campbell from his home, Kilbryde, Campbell's Point, shows the procession of yachts at the closing of the season in April, 1887. Other well-known oldtimers are Spray, Eita, Arawa, Corinna, Mapu, Matangi, Waitangi, Viking, Volunteer, Thelma, Aorere, Tangaroa and Yum Yum. The more recent boats are Mabel, Atalanta, Ilex, Mahaki, Rainbow, Gloriana, Daisy, Ngatira, Thistle, Speedwell, Ariki and Rawene, down to the present-day yachts Nga Toa and Morewa, not forgetting the 14-footers and Wakateres.

Another interesting section shows the mullet boat class from the Welcome Jack'to the present type.

The one-raters Laurel, Mercia and Alma, built to compete for a prize of £100 offered by the North Shore Native Regatta in December, 1899, are shown. The race was won by Laurel.

Scows and cutters, a class which has •almost disappeared from the waters of the Waitemata, are displayed, together with the deep-water vessels, the whole forming, the largest and best collection ever brought together in Auckland. They will later form a permanent section at the Museum.