AKAROA REGATTA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 541, 20 September 1881, Page 3

AKAROA REGATTA.

To. the Editor

Sir, —I was very much pleased to see by your last issue you bavo been agitating the getting np of our annual Regatta. There is no doubt but that we hare.the finest sheet of water in New Zealand for either pulling or sailing races, and all we want to make the affair a thorough success is an energetic committee and some good so that a good sum may be collected, and prices of sume value offered to encourage outside competition, for as long as the races are confined to local boats the Regatta will be a very hollow affair. |fc As it is the only gala day Akaroa has in "' the twelve months, every one should do bis or her best to make it a success. There is no doubt it has fallen off these last few years, simply from the whole of the work being put on the shoulders of a few, those who should as-ist keeping aloof. That we have a few who go heart and soul into the a getting up of our Regattas I will'admit, but it wants more than a few—it requires all of us to assist—and whilst on the subject I should like to ask what are our ladies about I have seen silk flngs made by ■them with the name of the Regatta and <h to embroidered on them, and presented to the committee to be given as a prize in some of the races. And lucky is the man or boat who wins one of these champion flaes. I hope some of our ladies will take the hint and do something, in this way to assist in making the Regatta, of 1881 the beet that we have had. Another point in which we should look at it is, that if a good programme is offered, and some good racing to be seen, we may expect some five or six hundred people down from Lyttelton, who .will bring some foreign capital into the place, a thing which all will admit is very much wanted. Hoping 6orne abler pen than mine will take up the subject and call a meeting at once, —I inn, AQUATIC.