HENLEY REGATTA.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16432, 28 January 1919, Page 5

HENLEY REGATTA.

« TO BE HELD IN JULY. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 25. A meeting of the University and other ■owing clubs at London decided to revive ; !he Henley Regatta in July. In response to i request on behalf of overseas troops, it lY a 3 decided to include an Inchcape eight>ar race- for Dominion troops. Australia, Canada, and Now Zealand have agreed to alter. New Zealand won the chief events it the Thames Regatta in 1918. At a meeting of returned soldiers leld at Leeston on Saturday night, at ( ,vhich an iiilesmere branch or tne lie- , ,urned Soldiers' Association was iomsd, some of the men from the Leeston settlement expressed disappointment) hat the Hon. D. H. GutHrie, Minis,er of Lands, had not given them the jpportunity of meeting him on the iccasiou of his visit to the EUesmere listrict last Friday. One of the men said he had noticed a paragraph in i ;he daily newspapers on Saturuay to i ;he effect that the Minister had visit- , >d the Leeston settlement, but none ; )f the settlers had seen any trace or lim. The men complained that tiieir | loldings were much too small, ana j hat it was impossible for them to ( aake a living .without going out to woi k ( or neighbouring farmers. One man laid he would not have given up a | rood position to take up a section it ne lad known that it would be too small o enable hihi to make a living. A ( :onsiderable amount of discussion j ook place regarding the Homebroolt j state, which is to be offered for sae ( r lease to returned soldiers shortly.. 111 the men present were of the opm- ] on that the property had been cut up nto too many sections, and tnat it £ rould be impossible for the successful pplicants to makfe a living ,without utside work. It was contended that man could not get along successfully nless he had sufficient land to seep team employed fairly constantly. It > understood that the men on the eeston settlement are asking tne wyrnment to increase the size of tneir actions. "We don't want to he soon-fed,'' declared one speaker. All e want is a fair chance to make a o of things."