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The taskforce set up to find accommodation for syndicate bases, should Team New Zealand retain the America’s Cup in 2003, has selected an extension to the Halsey St wharf as the preferred option, Minister for the America’s Cup Trevor Mallard announced today.

Minister for the America’s Cup Trevor Mallard today announced the membership and terms of reference for the taskforce that will consider options for the provision of sites for syndicate bases for the 2005-6 America’s Cup regatta, and subsequent regattas.

Thank-you for the invitation to help launch the Base Club Ambassadors’ Programme, and welcome to my fellow ambassadors.

This new programme will tie in well with what our Government’s doing to boost the economic spin-offs from the America’s Cup regatta.

A new economic impact study is to be carried out into the spin-offs to the economy and local businesses from the Louis Vuitton and America’s Cup regattas, Minister for the America’s Cup Trevor Mallard and Tourism Minister Mark Burton announced today.

Aucklanders will be treated to a magnificent sight when the Italian Navy’s tall sailing ship, Amerigo Vespucci, escorted by a welcoming flotilla, sails into Auckland on Sunday 20th October on its first visit to New Zealand, Minister for the America’s Cup Trevor Mallard said today.

Minster for the America’s Cup Trevor Mallard and Minister of Tourism Mark Burton are welcoming the results of a new study, which already shows a multi-million dollar windfall to the New Zealand economy from the build-up to the 2003 America’s Cup Defence.