OFF BASTION POINT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 9

OFF BASTION POINT.

YACHTS AND MOTOR BOATS. THREE HUNDRED ASSEMBLE. Favoured with a good sailing breeze, about 300 yachts and motor boats assembled in Biddiek"s Bay, off the Bastion Point, yesterday afternoon to pay homage to the late Prime Minister. The procession from the King's wharf to the point started at 2.15 p.m. About 100 craft took part, all classes being J represented. Rainbow led the keelers, I Corona and Amaterc t..e 20-footers, ! Kakoa and Mirage the 22's, while boals of the M, V, f, X, Y and Z classes and Silver Feru fell in astern. The procession was led by the commodore of I the Tamaki Club, Mr. W. A. Wilkinson. j flying his flag from Mr. G. W. C. Reid's I Caprice. At the Bastion Point the boats • anchored, swelling the number already i there to 200, which was increased later i by boats on their way home, also by about 20 Frostbites from Narrow Neck. All flags were flown half-mast till -*--"><• p.m., when the ""I.a>t Post"" HiiimillH-ed' the end of the ceremony. A> the la»tj notes died out, the ctiiuiiiodore lired a, gun from the clubhouse tower as the I signal to masthead all flags, which was done,by the large fleet at anchor, who then got under win fur their various moorings. '