YACHTING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10846, 11 March 1921, Page 3

YACHTING

THE TURNBULL CUP. To-morrow (Saturday) the race for the Turnbull Cup will be sailed. This and the Mills Cup, sailed last Saturday, are the two big events of the year in the Port Nicholson Yacht Club’s programme. The Turnbull Cup was presented by the executors of the late A. H. Turnbull, Hsq. Besides being a great collector of books and historical documents (his collection, was bequeathed to the State), Mr Turnbull was a keen yachtsman. In 1894 he bad the yacht Rona. and won many races with her, including the New Zealand Championship in her class. The splendid cup, which he won on that occasion, is now the Alexander Turnbull Memorial Cup, which will keep the memory of this great sportsman green for many years. Later Mr Turnbull owned the lorangi, now in Auckland, still one of the fastets yachts in the Dominion. He was commodore of the club for a number of years in the ’nineties. The cup is a handsome solid silver loving cup, valued at fifty guineas, and may be seen during the week in the window of Messrs Duncan and Mclntosh, in Manners street. The cup may be won outright by tlie same owner winning, the race for it three years in succession or five times at intervals. Club prizes for first and second yachts are also allocated to this race.

The entries are Marangi. Rona, Wanderer, Viola, Atalanta, Wairere 11., Ailsa

Last year the cup was won by Wanderer.

Mr T. W. Kirk, Director of Horticulture Division, Department of Agriculture, has been on a visit to Nelson. Messrs.C. N. Haslarn and O. D. Flamank have been elected to fill vacancies on the Teachers’ Superannuation Board, to represent the North and the South Islands respectively. A London cable message announces the death of Lord Moulton. Lord Moulton was born in 1544. He was a judge of the Court of Appeal from 1906 to E 912, when he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary tftid Member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Fie was a member of the House of Commons for a number of years. During the war ho was Direc-tor-General of Explosive Supplies in the. Ministry of Munitions. The recent deaths of three old members of the New Zealand Bar-—Mr J C. Helmore, of Christchurch, at the age of 89; Mr C. E. Button, of Auckland, at the age of 84 years; and Sir James Prendergast, at the age of 95 years— an inquiry in Dunedin as to who is now the senior admitted member of the legal profession in the Dominion. The distinction oi being the senior member of the profession by admission, not only of Otago, but _ also in the whole of New Zealand, belongs to Mr Darcy Haggitt, of Dunedin, who was admitted by Air Justice H S. Chapman in February, 186.5. Mr Haggitt lias been the Supreme Court librarian for a number of years, and was formerly a partner of the legal firm of Messrs Haggitt Bros, and Brent.