YACHTING MEETING

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 285, 29 August 1935, Page 13

YACHTING MEETING

Wellington Provincial

Association

In view of the importance of the sport of yachting to the country, associations should combine to make strong representations to the Government to nave Sandens Cup and Cornwell Cup boats carried free of cost o>n the railways, was a suggestion made recently to the New Zealand Yachting Council by Captain W. .1. Keane, of the Wellington Provincial Yacht and Motor Boat Association. A letter received by last night's meeting of the association from Mr. G. R. Curtis, chairman of the council, noted the suggestion. Captain Keane suited that he would approach the Railway Department, with the idea of arranging for an excursion train to the ID3U Sandens Cup contest at Auckland, lor the transport oi crews and boats as well as of spectators. Further suggestions forwarded to the council by Captain Keane, and acknowledged in Mr. Curtis’s letter, were that the New Zealand Yachting Council should be wound up, and the control of (Sanders Cup contests vested in the Canterbury association for the preseut, and in future in the Sanders Cup conference; that the Zclass contest be changed to a New Zealand Monotype Cup, with control vested in the Cornwell Cup conference, and that the funds of the council be used to procure a cup, to be presented to the Lyttelton club, to record their winning of the .1.934-35 Z-class contest. Mr. Curtis commented in bis letter to the effect, that there was no possibility of the Auckland association joining any such body as the council. As the objects for which the council were originally framed had been gained—the Sanders Cup beiug now ruder Dominion control, with Auckland on au equal basis, and the Cornwell Cup also virtually under Dominion control —the council might well be wound up, but this < ould not be done immediately. Plans £oi a suggested monotype boat were received from Mr. W. H. Wag-taff. who stated tlat a boat made to the.-e plans was on view at his workshop. The meeting decided t< thank Mr. Wagstaff, but to state that no decision could be made until a performance of the boat had beeu observed. . Proposed rules for the New Zealand Tdle-Along championship were placed before the meeting, and approved.