Membership of Suva Yacht Club
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A Record
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva. Jan. 24.
MEMBERSHIP of the Suva Yacht Club at the end of the 1948 season is a record. There are 400 financial mem bers.
The big event of the year was the open ing of the new clubhouse, which has been praised and admired by overseas visitors to Suva.
Officers elected at the annual meeting of the Club recently are as follows: General Committee: Commodore, Cap tain J. P. Mullins; vice-commodore, Mr.
S. A. Lee; rear-commodore. Captain E.
W. Harness; secretary, Mr. J. W. St.
Julian; treasurer, Mr. V. Hawksley; sail ing captain, Mr. T. F. B. Frost; house captain, Mr. W. Willoughby; two elected members, Mr. J. K. Mac Lean, Mr. J.
Molloy.
Sailing Committee: Starter, Mr. L.
Hawksley; timekeeper, Mr. G. Robertson; handicapper, Mr. O. A. Bentley; junior representative, Master B. Frost.
House Committee: Two elected lady members, Mrs. M. Williams, Mrs. W. Sel lars; junior representative; Master P.
Sellars.
The date of the official opening of the 1949 yachting season has been fixed for February 26 and 27.
Mr. E. J. Coode is to be stationed at Rabi, where he is to be Adviser on Bana ban Affairs. Mr. Coode will replace Major F. G. L. Holland, GM, who is to re tire. Rabi is the Fiji island on which has been settled the surplus population from Ocean Island (Gilbert and Ellice Colony).