Advisability of Removing Haars.
Owing (0 Harbour Congestion An extraordinary general meeting of the Shanghai Yacht Club was held on Tuesday at the Palace Hotel to consider the advisability of moving the club house to a section of the river which would give here for opportunities for sailing.
The Commodore, Mr. E. T. Byrne, who was in the chair, said that the Committee had had the matter of making a move under eonsidera~ tion for a long time, At present it was next to impossible to have a decent sail owing to the congee tion in the harbour, But they had to look into the matter very carefully. In the first place the club's funds were small—only last year had they had a surplas—and seconds ly they raced in two classes of boats, up-river and down-river craft, If it' were decided to have a club house down river the small boats would suffer; if they had one up river the bigger boats would suffer. Nevertheless they had up or down river. ooking out for a suitable site and had found a small creek, with a convenient Chinese building and three small docks, between Lunghua and Minghong, the site being a distance of about three-quarters of. a mile from the Minghong Road, past the turnpike. The spot could also possibly be reached by a new, fast launch from Shanghai to! Binghoo which might be induced to stop there, They would have to have rooms in which to stay during the week-end—of course, the inter week races would have'to be discontinted—in fact, the place would become a small country club, especially as it would be necessary, to offer some inducements to mei Jers without boats,. The building
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