YACHTING
PLANS FOR P-CLASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND. June 15. An Auckland yachting committee is organising a seven-foot (P class) world yachting championship. It hopes to hold the-first race'next year. Interest in Brisbane, Fiji, and possibly Canada is reported. The trophy for the world P-class contest will be the United Services Trophy, presented by Mr D. H. Skelton in 1943, gnd dedicated to those who gave their lives in the Second World War. Lately, this trophy has been for the Auckland provincial inter-port P-class championship. The world contest will also be an interport event, the word port here meaning any place, inland- or coastal, where yachting is conducted. The new committee is led by Mr J. J. Mackay, a noted Auckland yachtsman. Contestants may be boys or girls, 16 years of age, with a residence qualification ‘ of 90 days in the port they represent.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27377, 16 June 1954, Page 12
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147YACHTING Press, Volume XC, Issue 27377, 16 June 1954, Page 12
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