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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29723, 17 January 1962, Page 7

Rhodesian An example of the scrupulous manner in which racing is conducted in some other parts of the world was given competitors in the unofficial Canterbury Olympic Finn championships on Sunday by a newcomer from Rhodesia. During manoeuvring for the start of the third race, J. F. C. Morgans, in Solo, lightly touched A. Ballintlne's Finnic 1. Mild bumps of this nature which do virtually no damage and which cause no real impedence are accepted by most Canterbury skippers as peccadillos hardly worth worrying about. Morgans, who was formerly racing secretary of the Royal Zanzibar Yacht Club, took another —and the correct — view by instantly putting about for the starting launch and informing the judge of his retirement from the event. His action was in contrast to another skipper who collided when on the port tack at a start and signed a declaration he had sailed the race properly; and the race officials themselves who, at the start of the fourth race, when at least four boats were across the line at the firing of the starting gun, did not bother to sound a recall or make any disqualification because "it would have involved too many boats, and, anyway, the wind is only light”