MOTOR BOATS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 257, 3 November 1906, Page 12

MOTOR BOATS.

The Geisha was launched last wppk. A number of launches were away ■raising un Sunday last. Commodore A. S. Wliii l"y's boaA was at Wa-iheke. !io Alleyne and Forro wei:l t.o Ta.iia.ki. inu Die lU'Wd, was .a c't. ilelier's Bay. .Mα--:-s Lofjan Bros, have launched a icw losit for .Mr. Worral, of Stanley Hay. She is 35ft long, and is fitted .vitii a It; h.p. Eagle engine. .\!.r. O-ifTordi's ;i.">it boat, which is litted with a 12 h.p. Th<-»mycroft en.:in<\ will probably Lμ- 'uujKhort to-day. The now hnafc wliich Mr. C. Bailey, jnnr.. is buildinff icr Mr. A. Brett is iiT\ nr.ii]\ linished, and wiii hr- ];uiti:hed .shortly. Phe has a 12 h.p. Imperial jng'inc. .Mr. Woodhousc's boat, thr \\ill bo launched next week. Having ? ciici his iauueli .Matarcka to Mr. Vorex, of Pauranjia, Mr. W. S. W'liitlpy has pLaced an <iidfr with Messrs. Logan Jiros. for a new boat. Work has already lx?cn commenced on the vessel, which is to be 40ft long by Oft bf-am. Nhe will he tilted with a 20 h.p. Lhroe-pylinder l.'nion engine, and is expected to develop a speed of 9 knots .in hour. 'The la.unch is to be built especially for r.rnL>in t Lr and will embody a.ll t.iie latest iniprovancnts, and will l>? litted with a. ladies' and a gentlemeu'a cabin. She. will be s.cJiooner rigged, and is to be called the Mata.reka. The present Matareka is to be delivered the first week ia December. The Anniversary Regatta committee deferred the settlement of the motor 1 races in nrrier that •''• sub'cornrnittee H.ight go fully into the matter. It. is proposed to hold v championship r.nco if .-iiitablc iii-angeincnts can be made. Jt was stated at the meeting that if such a race were arranged some of the fast boats in Australia would be entered for the event, which would then be regarded as an intercolonial one.