KING WINS YACHT RACE
SQUALLY' WEATHER AT COWES. ENTHUSI ASTIC DEMONSTRATION. ■ British Wireless. Rugby, Aug. 6. The King, accompanied by Earl JeHicoe, look part at Cowes yesterday in his first yacht race since his illness, it had been arranged that in the event of the weather breaking the. King won ( return to his steam yacht Victoria and Albert .by a mine-sweeper sloop which was in attendance upon his racing cutter Britannia. • , , Some strong squalls were encountered and there were constant. showers, but the King sailed to the finish, the Liitahnia finished second, but on time allowance was placed fourth. . Sixteen yachts competed m the race for'the King’s Cup, which was won by Mr. Gretton’s Cariad. The Britannia, with His Majesty on board, won her 200th race at Cowes this afternoon‘in fine style by three, or four lengths. There was an enthusiastice demonstration when, after the J ace, the King arrived at the Royal Yaeh Squadron enclosure.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1930, Page 9
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