YACHT RACING
EIGHTEEN FOOTERS' LEAGUE ANOTHER RESIGNATION Press Association—By. Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, August 9. (Received August 9, at 11 a.m.) L. Wilson, a member of the crew of tho State champion yacht Taree, resigned from the Eighteen Footers League after unsuccessfully moving a vote of no confidence in the Australian Board of Control. Wilson said the principles of the league were not being upheld. Swinbourne’s resignation has not yet been accepted. [A message .received on July 19 stated; It was announced at a meeting of the New South Wales Eighteen Footers League that the Australian Board of Control had decided not to continue with B. Swinbourne’s appeal against the'Taree’s disqualification in the world championship, held at Auckland in February. The Queensland and New South Wales members of the Board of Control agreed that, although the conditions of the championship had not been carried out, it was in the interests of interdominion sporting harmony that the decision in New Zealand should remain unaltered. Swinbourna protested that the board had no authority to make such a decision. He had appealed to New Zealand, not New South Wales or Queensland. As a resuit of the decision Swinbourne has resigned from the league.]
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Evening Star, Issue 23340, 9 August 1939, Page 9
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198YACHT RACING Evening Star, Issue 23340, 9 August 1939, Page 9
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