CHRISTCHURCH REGATTA.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14193, 6 November 1911, Page 5

CHRISTCHURCH REGATTA.

SUGGESTED COUKSE AT LTTTELTON. For some yeurs pa?t tho annual Christcliurcli regatta lias bccii Tie!d at Lake Forhjth, Little Rivur. but this ait« has never lien a satis-fnetory one from tho rowins !iir;n'a point of view. Tho has btou ma'Jo iLat tho regatta nhould be h«ld on ■Lj-ttclt-in hsrliour, over a courpo extending frnm Governor's Bay jotty to Corsair Bay. Tho distance between those points ia, r<uphly, two rnilfcs, and there is a very fine stretch of water, well pheltercd from nor'we?t -K-inrlß, and paxtiaJ'.y from the prevailin;; wind —mrth-Mst.

Yeptorthiv mo'iJTn? a party oon?i?tiiisr of Mr-??ra F. D. Ko«ioven (President), and A. E. Jay (pecretiry). a.rd several members of the co!jimiMfv> .>f (bo Ch-ifftcbnrch Retrntta Club, went through 'o Lvttoltrn to the pu<j*:rMrd c-iupo The morniner wne a very c<>!d nrd unfnvournb'e ew. with a Ftroni? F-'HitVeTly wind bloving aerops tbe harbour Tho party wnHcd onf tr> n point Cori:i:r Cay. arid wore vrry favourably im with >vliit gaw. A'thoiirrh. a f:r*-h <ran vis liTovin-r frnrn tho so'ifbwc«t Ibe wntor enrr win not iind'l'v roiirh A fiir'hcT v.-ill be vt"'le> wjlbin n ffw dnys to rfccrfriin whr'lior f-'-tiTl , .- v.'iTi'lo wifb n put]! up the ln-bo'.T \WI mnfrrinHv "nff"ct <be cntiTsf , Irnm the iot'otp , noint of vicrv. Tho conr?o would b<? «r> -d?."] one for the specinfora.