WAETEMATA IS GAY.
ANNIVERSARY CARNIVAL BIG KEELERS AND WAKATERES. FAIR NORTHERLY AIDS YACHTSMEN. A snatch of song on the Waitemata from a pleasure craft and Auckland was once again enjoying Regatta Day, the city's oldest sporting fixture, dating almost from the foundation of the province away back in 1 840. It was a good day . . « "tailormade for yachting," somebody remarked. From the start of events a fair northerly breeze ruled, and at 10.30 a.m. it freshened, making conditions perfect. All Auckland vas on the harbour, or so it seemed. Everybody was there—in ferry boats, in pleasure cruisers, in motor boats, in big keelers, and in tiny 12-footers. It was the day of days. It was the "yachties'" day, too—yachties in shorts and nothing much else, yachties in heavy sweaters, the Navy in whites (and their ketch-rigged Viking of long-amassed glory), the "smart boys" in speed craft, with roaring engines and a thrashing wake. Then the snatch of song again .. . "Oh, come round the harbour with me. ..."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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166WAETEMATA IS GAY. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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