YACHTING DISPUTE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 220, 17 August 1939, Page 10

YACHTING DISPUTE.

RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. SYDNEY, Aug. 16. The Eighteen-Footers’ League has accepted B. Swinbourne’s resignation. The league has decided to send the world’s championship cup to tho New Zealand Yacht Association for presentation to the winner, Manu. of Auckland. On July 19 it was announced 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 last February. Nwinbourne protested that the board had no authority to make such a decision He had appealed to New Zealand and not to New South \Vales or Queensland. As a result of the decision Swinbourne handed in his resignation from the league. The Taree, the Sydney holder of the world 18-footer title, gained most points in the championship series at Auckland, but was disqualified on a protest entered bv an Auckland boat, the Limerick, which alleged that the Taree committed a breach of the rule requiring the boat on the port tack to give way to the boat on the starboard tack. The trophy was awarded to the Manu of Auckland.