A DEEPER RIVER.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 6

A DEEPER RIVER.

* PROGRESS OF SWEEPER. A pleasant sight which has not been witnessed for many years is that of rowing crews training on the upper reaches of the Avon almost in the heart of the City. The Avon Rowing Club has taken up its headquarters at the old Fire Jlrigiule Station at Chester street and tho crews use tlie stretch of river between there and the Madras street Bridge as a training ground. Here the limpid waters run deep and slow and the rowers find the course very satisfactory. Their only fear is lest it might silt up again. The Canterbury and Union Rowing Clubs have taken lip temporary training headquarters at Burwood.

Meanwhile tho river sweeper pursues its course steadily seawards. It has reached a spot opposite Churchill street, where the river was ordinarily very shallow, but where now, with the rubbish and silt that has accumulated, the ducks can wade across. The task of the sweeper for the next half mile or so is a big one. Then it reaches the boatsheds and hence the necessity on the part of the rowing clubs for a temporary transference of headquarters.