YACHTING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22860, 15 October 1937, Page 18

YACHTING

TAMAKI CLUB'S SEASON NEW OFFICERS ELECTED " Tho past season was tho best the club had experienced both from a racing and financial point of view," said Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, commodore, at the annual meeting of the Tamaki Yacht Club. " Record entries were received for all club fixtures, the entries for the regatta totalling 104. Tho club was one of three which guaranteed the cost of producing the recent historical pageant Runnymede, and each club would receive about £2OO as its share of the profits. Half of the Tamaki Club's share, it was hoped, would go to the debenture fund and the balance to erecting a stone wall round the front of the clubhouse and increasing the height of the present wall." The annual report stated that five days were devoted to racing. A feature was tho regatta which was the most* successful in tho club's history. The balance-sheet showed a credit balanco of £46 on the year's workings. The receipts, which totalled £236, included £35 from entry fees, £35 from subscriptions,-£35 from donations, £4l from the queen carnival, £35 from hire of clubhouse and £l7 from the sale of a dinghy. The principal items of expenditure were £63 for cash prizes, and £43 for debentures redeomed. The election of officers resulted as follows: —Patron, Sir Ernest Davis; vice-patrons, Captain H. H. Sergeant, the Hon. John Alexander, MJi.C., and Messrs. A. Brett, H. H. Partridge, C. G. Macindoe, W. Goodfellow and J. €. Hill; president, Mr. W. P. Endean, M.P.; convnodore, Mr. W. A. Wilkinson; vicecommodore, Mr. N. Taylor; rear-commodore, Mr. &. W. Butcher; hon. treasurer. Mr. War, wick Jackson; hon. secretary, Mr. E. A. Haynes; hon. solicitor, Mr. Marshall White; hon. 'architect, Mr. M. K. Draffin; hon, engineer, Mr. J. McKinley; clubhouse captain, Mr. Allen White; assistant, Mr. A. Cockroft; hon. auditors, Messrs. W. E. Webster and W. McLaren; committee, Messrs. S. L. Greenhough, C. Marks, S. O. Nicholas, J., Madill, C. V. Young, S. F. Ford, D. Bain, A Cockroft, W. L. Williams, L. iR. Matthews, J. Batts, S. Naismitb, It. Browning. R. Urquhart and H. Holliday; delegates to Yacht and Motor-Boat Association, Messrs. S. Nicholas and W. Jackson; ladies' committee, Mesdames W. H. Madill (president), J. .Moore, Bradbury, A. White, F. C. Jordan, C. Marks, Rogers. Koeford, A. G. Whnley, F. H. Browne, W. Patteson,, McGeaghen, J. Gisby and Misses A. Armstrong and Appleyard. Mesdames J. Moore and W. H. Madill were unanimously elected honorary life members of the club in recognition of services rendered. On the motion of the commodore if was decided to send a letter expressing the club's admiration of the rescue work done at Karaka Bay by Messrs. H. H. Partridge and T. Tilby; also by Mrs. Partridge and Mrs. F. C. Jordan. • ' Mr. L. R. Matthews, the retiring secretary, who did not seek re-election, was accorded a vote of thanks. The commodoi'e stressed the urgent necessity for a boat harbour on the eastern side of the city between Campbell's Point and St. Heliers. It was unanimously decided that the Auckland Harbour Board bo requested to consider the question of the most suitable site to accommodate the ever-increasing number' of boats owned by residents of the Tamaki district.