HENLEY SNOBBISHNESS
Manual Workers Cannot Row There ABOUTION MOVE (Eeceived 9, 8.45 a.m.) 1 . LONDON, April 8. During the physical training debate |in the llouse of Commons Mr. Anthony jEden asked if some Tyneside shipwrights ' apprentices took up rowing and |>roduced a flrst-class elght, would Mr. Oliver Stanley, who was in charge of the Bill, use his influence with the Hen3ey authorities to get a relaxation of the rule barring people engaged in 8 onanual oceupation from rowing thereu Sir J. Witherg, a rowing enthusiast, asked whether there really was a rule to that eflect. Mr. Noel Baker said the rule of the Amateur Eowing Association was thata man whe earned his living by hia hands wasineligible. Sir J. J. Withers: "I will certainly do my best to get the rule revised." (Cheera.)
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 70, 9 April 1937, Page 7
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