YACHTING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 11

YACHTING

THE MILLS CUP CONTEST,

This afternoon the chiuf_ yachting event of the season will be decided, when a roiiteU will take place, for the Mills Cup. Tho cup, which is valued at 100 guineas, was bequeathed to the club by the late E. C. E. 51 ills, of the -linn of E. ; \v.-Mills' and Co. Mr.-Mills was always an enthusiastic yachtsman, find in the late seventies and early eighties he owned the yacht Xaritn. iter- name figures prominently in all the. club fixtures about that time. Later, about 1901. sfr. Mills owned the liainlmw, njid the contests between the l'ainbow, Mr. A. 11. Tiir.nbuH's lurangi, and Mr. 1). Georitesou's U'aitaiigi will lie remembered by oil yachtsmen of that lime, and the merits of the three yachts are'still a subject'of'discussion. Ml'. .Mills died in Loudon in..Tune, ISIKL lie was a tine sporlsanan, who had tlu-'interest of yacht-i-j" lit heni'l, In this he was a worthy successor of the late J*. ; W. 51 ills, founder (if the.firm of R. W. Mills amlX'o. Mr. | MilM was one of the founders of the ,I'ori Nicholson Yacht Club in 18113, and , left a I'uie trophv, which was contested for many rears.' It was known as the Milk Memorial Tropli.v, and was finally, won by the . Waitangi, then .owned by Mr. J.M'l.oiin, seiir. : The race is from Clyde Quay Wharf wound the " pinnacle buo'y ■ oil' Seatoiiu,. thence to the. pinnacle buoy. oil Korokoro, ; then round the Jerning.hiim buoy, and back to the finishing line ol'i' Clyde Quay. In a southerly wind the course will lie reversed, lhe distance is about twenty miles. Arrangements have been made for the ferry steamer -Cobar to follow the race from start to finish. •; i The start for the Mills' Cup will be a flying start, and the following yachts have entered:-Waitangi,' Marangi, "Ko- ' tirf'lT,,' Bonn, AVhite Heather, Wamle'rpr, Ailsa, Viola, Atalaiita, and Waircre 11. ' . ' . Tho annual races for this cup must bo won by the same bout three times in succession or five, times ■at intervals; But with every win a solid silver replica..of the big ciip"goes .to the winner. These replicas lire provided for froin the estate of the ' late E. C. : . E. Mills' and by Mr. ,T. Mills''present head of the firm of E. W. Mills/and Co. Tho cup is flu-ex-hibition 'in' the' window of Messrs. Buncan and M'lnlosh, . mercers, Manners Street. , •