YACHTSMEN AT VARIANCE
EIGHTEEN-FOOTERS LEAGUE A MEMBER'S RESIGNATION SYDNEY, Aug. 9. L. Wilson, a mqmber of the crew of the 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:—lt 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 ihterdominion sporting harmony that the decision in New Zealand should remain unaltered. Swinbourne 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 result of the decision, Swinbourne has resigned from tht league.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 11
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