YACHTING No Representative For Meeting At Auckland

Press, Volume C, Issue 29682, 28 November 1961, Page 25

YACHTING No Representative For Meeting At Auckland

Canterbury will not be represented at a special meeting of the Auckland Provincial Yachting Association in Auckland on Thursday. The special meeting has been called by the association to discuss a proposal to withdraw from the federation except for discussion of Olympic matters; and Auckland had invited Canterbury, Wellington and Otago associations to send representatives. Wellington has accepted the invitation. “We have written them a letter more or less telling them it is a domestic matter,” the president of the Canterbury Yachting Association (Mr W. H. Beanland) said yesterday when asked by ’’The Press” to explain why Canterbury had declined the Auckland invitation. Mr Beanland said Canterbury's attitude was that until Auckland made its decision there was nothing to react to: and when Auckland had made its decision, if it was along the lines of partial withdrawal, then the subject was a matter for the federation. It was not necessarily Canterbury’s place to attend the special meeting of the Auckland association executive to try to persuade Auckland

along a certain line or, on the other hand, to be converted to Auckland’s ideas, he said.