ATHLETICS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 440, 17 February 1912, Page 7

ATHLETICS.

Sports meetings in the district will be treading quickly on the heels of each other during the next few weeks. On March 7th, the annual gathering at Aria is billed, and March 27th and 28th will be given over to Te Kuiti and Otorohanga sports meetings respectively. The Aria programme is highly varied and attractive, being specially suited to a local country meeting. All classes of sport are catered for, running, chopping and horse events being well distributed. The Aria sports gatherings are deservedly popular and there is little doubt that the meeting of 1912 will take rank among the best that have been held. Nominations close on February 22nd, with the secretary at Aria. Te Kuiti Club is out with a most attractive programme of fourteen events, including footracing, sawing and chopping. To these are to be added a series of Highland competitions in dancing and piping, which should add considerably in attractiveness and variety to an aiready comprehensive bill-of-fare. The promoters of the Otorohanga sports were wise in choosing the day following Te Kuiti gathering. It is a step in the right direction towards organising the gatherings of the varioas club in the district, and an example which might well be followed by all. A reasonable arrangement of dates would undoubtedly lead to better entries and a better class of competitors in the various events and little difficulty should be experienced in fixing dates which would work in to the benefit of clubs and competitors alike.