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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 51

' ■ "My claims to being a yachtsman are, I am afraid, very nebulous,” observed the Governor-General (Sir Charles son) in a hpmofous speech at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club’s smoke concert, “ but I _ feel a certain amount of confidence in being surrounded by a number of old sea dogs, notably the’ Prime Minister—(laughter)—Mr Speaker and others. I am' also comforted by the thought that in some of those admirable illustrated papers I have at least twice figured under the heading, ‘Our Gover-nor-General as Yachtsman.’ ”-—(Renewed laughter.) His Excellency mentioned that in the last two or three years; he had spent the summer months in Auckland, and had, to certain extent, qualified as a. yachtsman..by ~sailing boats, in one or.two races.