COUNT VON LUCKNER.
YACHTSMEN'S WELCOME.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.
PRESENTED WITH BURGEE,
LBy Teiegrapn. —Jfiesa Association WELLINGTON, March 25.
About 200 Wellington yachtsmen representing all the principal harbour clubs assembled on Wednesday evening at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club headquarters to welcome Count Pelix von Luckner. The count received
an enthusiastic recaption and was pre sented with the club burgee.
"Count von Luckner has proved himself to be one of the greatest sailors in the world. He has travelled thousands of miles in an 18ft open boat with only a foot of freeboard,' said the club commodore, Mr. W. T. Barton. "Not only as a yachtsman do we wel-. come him, but as a gallant gentleman, and we should like him to accept our burgee. It is only on very rare occasions that our burgee is ever presented."
"I shall bo proud, to fly.your standard at my mast, and after I return home to Germany it shall hang in my castle," said the count, when Mr. Barton handed him the tricolour bunting quartered and surmounted by a golden crown indicating the states of the club.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20271, 25 March 1938, Page 3
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