YACHTING CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 163, 5 April 1933, Page 2

YACHTING CONTROL

Reply to Auckland Criticism

WELLINGTON VIEWPOINT

“The failure of the Sanders Cup in the past has been mostly due to deferred action due to f the short meeting of conferences, and the fact that each conference brought new delegates unfamiliar with the work of the previous conferences, in other words want: of continuity, from year to, year,” said Mr. 0. H. Miller, chairman of the Wellington Provincial Yacht and Motor-boat Association, speaking at a meeting of the Plinimerton Boating Club recently in reference to a published statement of the Auckland Yacht and Motor-boat Association explaining why it had declined to join the recentlyformed New Zealand Yachting Council. The New Zealand Council has appointed its delegates, and at the present time we would be much further on, but for the fact that we are holding up things in the hope that Auckland will comb in, Mr. Moller eaid. New Zealand yachtsmen say to Auckland, “We ask for equal representation, and after that anything you are likely to propose in the interests of the sport we are prepared to accept.” We simply say, “Come iri.dhd help us lay down rules and regulations that will make future contests a worthy memorial to this man whom we commemorate by the Sanders Cup.” With regard to the Cornwell Cup that was founded byZthe Takapuna club, not the Auckland association, Mr. Moller said that the position in Auckland was that the Cornwell Cup had been particularly well managed. ■ But had the New Zealand Council been .in being, one, week would have finished it. Thg_ difference between Auckland and other New Zealand associations could have been finished in on© meeting if the New Zealand Council had been operating. Yachtsmen did not seem to realise that the New Zealand Council stood for intercolonial, interprovincial, and inter-port matters only, and they were not t going to concern themselves one -iota about club matters. . . . He felt that in Auckland there had been a good deal in the way of clouding the issue there, which should not be. “I want you to understand that the New Zealand Council is a body of men representing the provincial associations, but it will not be their own judgment they will give on any matter—they wjll be instructed by. their associations, The

Wellington association is composed of three delegates from each club. These clubs instruct their delegates to our association, from the club delegate to the association, and from association to delegate on council, who records their voice on the council as one of five provinces. The Auckland association have in the past favoured a New Zealand council, except that they wanted representation pro rata. This is not acceptable to any association, except Auckland, and that is tjie only stumbling-block

which prevents us from being a unanimous body. “The council is imbued with the best ideals,” he added,, “and the local clubs, including this club, will have a resume of all the business of the council before it is finally adopted, s 0 that every club will have a say as to what should not

and what should be the rules of that council. That is in effect the main aspirations of the New Zealand council, as given to the committee of three that was set up to roughly draft the constitution of that body.” • ;>