AQUATICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13289, 22 September 1906, Page 7

AQUATICS.

The lady supporters of the North Shore Rowing Club are tendering an "At Home" to members next Friday evening in. the Foresters' Hall, Devonport. The North Shore Rowing Club are holding their annual general meeting at the clubhouse at the latter end of this month. A 20ft open launch, to the order of Mr. Mcßae, fitted with a three horse-power " Zealandia" engine, was sent to the Great Barrier Island, making a non-stop run for the full journey in good time. The timer Toroa, after having a new cabin and five horse-power oil engine fitted, has been launohed, and looks quite shipshape. Messrs. Clare and Oollings, of Ponsonby, have just received an order from a wellknown fisherman for a 26ft tuck-stern cen-tre-board yacht, of tho Acrasja type, also to have an oil engine. ..,,,., The Peri has been sold to Messrs. Pountry and Co., and will be next season found racing in the first class of the North Shore Yacht Club. ■ The annual meeting of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron was held on Thursday night, and I was pleased to see such a large attendance of members and so much interest manifested in the proceedings. Mr. O. P. Murdoch, who has occupied the position of commodore for some years past, was unanimously re-elected to the position, with Messrs. A. Alison as vice-commodore and Mr. John Alexander as rear-commodore. The membership of the squadron is steadily increasing, and, with Mr. R. S. Reynolds, the hon. treasurer, still in charge of "the chest," the funds are being safely conserved in tho interests of the club. ;'. The New Zealand Power-boat Association has lost one of its most enthusiastic members and supporters by the death of Captain Roland Streater, who died on Saturday last as the result of an accident at Auckland on board tho steamer Ayrshire. The deceased gentleman was the owner of the oil yacht Seaford, and was very keenly interested in the sport. He was one of the most kind-hearted and genial of men, and will be much missed by the members of the association. Personally it has been my good fortune to have known Captain Streater for many years, when he was one of " those that went down to the sea in ships," and, like hundreds more in New Zealand and elsewhere, his memory will be "ever green" with us. Ltnx.