Suva To Be In Big Yacht Race
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lUVA yachtsmen are building a special ) 18 ft. yacht to compete in the Jas.
J. Giltinan world 18 ft. champion lip trophy contest in Auckland next muary. In a letter to Mr, D. H. :elton, secretary of the Auckland Fly g Squadron, which is sponsoring the ntest, a Suva official says the boat is :pected to be completed about mid- Dvember.
It will then compete with Clover, (the ,cht mentioned when Fiji Challenged r the trophy) in a series of selection ials. Clover is said to be a modified -class 18-footer.
This is an international contest, in lich 18 ft., unballasted, single-hulled chts from any country may compete, itries are expected from places as far /ay as Hongkong and Brisbane. Con filing body is the New South Wales 18 Yacht Club, which presented the and the next contest is scheduled r Auckland.
New Guinea Martyrs’ Day was observed St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne on sptember 2, when Archdeacon A. J. lompson of Samarai, was the celebrant a Memorial Communion. This Day mmemorates the murder of Anglican ission sisters and priests in New Guinea r the Japs in 1942.