Chch man gets boat award

Press, 2 July 1986, Page 12

Chch man gets boat award

Mr Walter Baguley, of Christchurch, has received one of the first merit awards presented by the Small Boat Safety Committee. Mr Baguley is president of the Coastguard Federation and a former principal cox and secretary of the Sumner Lifeboat Insti- ’ tute. Captain Frank Stolberger, a former senior examiner of masters and mates in the Marine Division’s' northern region received, posthumously, the first merit award. He was named the first recipient at the committee’s annual yachtmaster awards, held at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland. Captain Stolberger was a senior examiner and former chairman of the committee’s working party in thfe nothern region. He was a key figure in starting the yachtmaster awards, now in their seventh year. The committee pre-

sented other merit awards to Mr William Edhouse, of Dunedin; Mr Alan Haddock, of Auckland; Captain Gordon Henry, of Wellington; Baron R. S. von Kohorn, of Wellington; and Mr Allen Daines, of Whakatane. In another tribute to Captain Stolberger, the Yacht Navigators’ Society Award was renamed the Frank Stolberger Memorial Award. It was presentd to Mr Alan Haddock of Auckland. Awards were made also to Mr Graeme Wallace, of Wellington, who got the yachtmaster 1 (ocean) award; Mr Christopher Judd, of Auckland, yachtmaster (coastal) award, northern region; Mr Eric White, of Wellington , yachtmaster (coastal) award, central region; Mr William Wark, of Dunedin, the yachtmaster (coastal) award, southern region; and Mr Stephen Nelson, of Whakatane, the New Zealand ,Coastguard award.