YACHTING CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 112, 4 February 1933, Page 13

YACHTING CONTROL

Delegates fßom Provinces Form N.Z. Body AUCKLAND HOLDS ALOOF Dominion Special Service. Cliristchurch, Feb. 3. After many years’ agitation, a New Zealand Yachting Association has been formed, but Auckland is not a member, lu the l>ast interprovincial yachting contests have been carried on for trophies vested in Auckland and under rules made in Auckland, and the only say the other provinces have had has been the recommendations of annual conferences of a few days’ duration which were by no means always accepted by Auckland. This applies to both the Sanders and tie Cornwell Cups. The New Zealand Association was formed last evening at a meeting of delegates called by the Canterbury Sailing and Power Boat Association. The delegates were: Canterbury, Messrs. G. Curtis and F. L. Friedman; Auckland, Messrs. W. A. Johnston and W. Rogers; Wellington, Messrs. Oscar A. Moller and B. J. L. Jukes; Otago, Messrs. W. O. Martin and Charles Smith; Stewart Island, Mr. T. Bragg. Mr. Curtis said the need was obvious for a Dominion body to control and foster all branches of yachting and power-boating. Much of the trouble that had occurred in the past would have, been avoided if such a body had existed. Wellington's Final Attempt. Mr. Moller said Wellington felt that if the Sanders Cup were going to continue to be managed in the way that it had been since the 1932 contest they would have nothing more to do with it. Wellington had come to get a settlement. If there were not a settlement it would be the last time of their participation. Bickerings had been caused principally because the Cup was controlled by a particular provincial body—a body which did not represent the collective opinion of New Zealand yachtsmen. It showed that something was wrong with the control when the Stewart Island delegate was present at that meeting while there was no boat representing him in tlie contest. ’Wellington had had to send a boat and crew to Lyttelton to gain the right to ventilate a certain question because there was no other legal way of doing .it. Otago Delegate’s Motion. Mr. Martin said that yachting was the only sport that did not have a Dominion body r in control. He moved : “That this conference of delegates representing the provinces of Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland decides that.in the interests of sailing and power boating in New Zealand a governing body to .control and foster these two branches of aquatic sport, comprising two delegates from each province, should be formed; that this body, to be known as the ’New Zealand Yachting Association,’ should control all inter-port and interprovineial sailing and power-boat racing contests and act as a court of appeal in all cases of dispute, and that all entrips for such contests be made through tlie said association.” Mr. Moller seconded the motion pro forma. Mr. Johnson, stating Auckland's ease, said he did not think that bodies with Dominion-wide control bad benefited other sports with which an analogy had been drawn. A point in favour of the present system was that the Dominion yachting body existed for a few days only so that there could be no long, drawn-out "rows.” Auckland Objections Stated. Sir. Johnson read two communications, one from the Auckland Yachting Association on tlie Sanders Cup, and the other from the Takapuna Boating Club on the Cornwell Cup, both dealing with the Dominion control proposal. In its communication the Auckland association postulated many conditions that would have to be accepted by other associations be-, fore it would agree to the formation of a Dominion body, one being that a delegate to it should cast votes in proportion to the number of sailing and power boats registered with his association. The Takapuna club was definitely opposed to granting Dominion Control of the Cornwell Cup contest. Mr. Johnson, said he had been instructed to vote against the motion before the meeting. Mr. Martin accepted an amendment to his motion to the effect that a committee be set up to re-word it. The motion was carried. Auckland’s objection being recorded and the word “Auckland” being struck out of the motion. It. was decided that the m.me of the body be tlie New Zealand Yachting Conn-1 cii, and should consist of one delegate from et.c.' province. It was agreed that I lie headqu.'ii ters of the council should be in each year located in the province in which tin conies!, for the major yachting trophy is Lein. In discussion it was stated that if Auckland would not. join the new body another trophy would have to be substituted for the Sanders Cup, that, this trophy would be forthcoming, and that there would be an interprovineial contest next year even if Auckland stood out of the new body. Wellington. Otago, and Canterbury delegates pledged that their associations would not enter for any interprovineial contest except through the Dominion Council. It. was agreed that the delegates present constitute the council until the new delegates could be appointed by the provincial associations.