YACHTING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21320, 13 November 1934, Page 14

YACHTING

j ♦ SANDERS CUP CONTESTS AUCKLAND AND NEW ZEALAND [ COUNCIL j a'RESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGBAII.) j AUCKLAND, November 12. I The question of affiliation with the [ New Zealand Yachting Council and | Auckland's participation in future Sanders Cup contests was dealt with at a meeting of the Auckland Yacht and Motor-Boat Association, and a number of resolutions were carried unanimously dealing with both matters. The Auckland Yacht and MotorBoat Association says, in a report i it has supplied, that it entertains most | cordial feelings of goodwill towards similar bodies in other parts of New ! Zealand and desires at all times to maintain this goodwill, but it considers tho existence of the New Zealand Yachting Council neither necessary nor desirable. Referring particularly to the Sanders Cup contest the association says it regrets the position which has arisen, and it is willing to co-operate with other yachting organisations in New Zealand to reestablish the Sanders Cup on a proper footing to which end it resolves to nominate delegates to attend any conference which may be held to consider the re-establishment of the Sanders Cup contests. Such delegates die to be empowered to agree to the inclusion of the Auckland Association I \ Sa T ders Cup Council or anysimiar body, Che activities of which are lmited to the conduct of contests for the Sanders Cup, but not unless they aie satisfies that the conference lays f>own such a basis upon which future banders Cup contests are to be held as will ensure that races will be so ely tests of tho skill and seaman! mbd of crews. The resolutions have been forS l ° «-« chairman of the New Zealand Yachting Council, also to the four southern yachting associations AUCKLAND'S GRIEVANCES MANY INVITATIONS TO JOIN COUNCIL When the New Zealand Yachting Council was set up at the Sanders Cup contest at Lyttelton last year, the

Auckland Yacht and Motor-Boat Association refused to join, chiefly because it though it was unfair that small ports should have equal voting power with Auckland, where there were close on 1000 craft registered. It maintained that it held many cups and trophies of Dominion interest, and should not be asked to relinquish control of them. It stated definitely that it would not do so under the conditions proposed. The association has since stood firmly in its attitude, although control of the Sanders Cup has been taken over by the New Zealand Council, and persistent overtures have been made to the association to throw in its lot with the other yachting bodies of the Dominion. Recent invitations from the council to the association have intimated that the council would be willing to let Auckland retain control of the Corn well and Masport Cup contests and the trans-Tasman race, but the council was going to control the Sanders Cup contest and any other inter-port contests that might be instituted, such as a contest for 18footers, which are popular in other centres and are beginning to find favour with yachtsmen in Lyttelton.

Conference Improbable Discussing the telegram from Auckland last evening, Mi- G. R. Curtis, chairman of the New Zealand Yachting Council, said the Sanders Cup contest did not need re-establishing on a proper footing. The council had tightened up some of the regulations to ensure that all the boats were built to the same design, so that the races could not be anything but tests of the skill and seamanship of the crews. As for the Auckland Association's statement that it considered the New Zealand Council neither necessary nor

desirable, Mr Curtis said it was a r«iteration of the attitude the association had adopted when the council was formed. He added that he did not think any conference to discuss the Sanders Cup contest would be held "We have done our best to make the Auckland Association see that the New Zealand Council is a federation of clubs, and not a body of men," Mr Curtis said; "but either it cannot see that or will not."