ECHOES OF THE SCULLING HANDICAP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 606, 7 December 1909, Page 3

ECHOES OF THE SCULLING HANDICAP.

Says yesterday’s Feilding Star; “There is not much sympathy for the promoters of the sculling contests at Foxton in their financial losses by those who understand the inner workings. In the .first .instance, they utterly failed to grasp the idea that while newspapers exist to give publicity to the doings of the population, money has also to be found to justify their existence, and when this is withheld itis hardly natural that a fixture of the kind should be written up beforehand. Then, the Foxton paper was boycotted altogether, both in advertising and printing, and considerjng the creditable manner in which the, proprietor has pushed the interests of the district since his residence there, and that there was no justification for such action, it is only natural that right-thinking residents should resent such highhanded action.” We feel sute ohr readers will appreciate > with .us the above sentiments, especially in view of , the fact that Britishers make a boast of their love of fair play. Says the Wellington Post: — “The support accorded the 5. venture locally was meagre. For one reason or another, and mostly ' justifiable, the excursions brought but a mere, sprinkling. The specials from '■ Wellington each day averaged six passengers, while excursions from surrounding districts were but poorly \*aasatronised. A pronounced local ™rtissension apparently did the Occasion not a little damage, and the. promoters will assuredly face a heavy deficit The enterprise of the promoters- was expected to have achieved, at least, a local popularity. The prizes were generously large, and the hospitality 1 visiting competitors, who were all, with the exception of one man, brought from Australia and lodged at the expense of the management; is worthy of alb praise. Yet, if the scheme has failed pecuniarily, it has established the fact that on the Manawatu, four miles from Foxton, is a river reach that may yet be the scene of the world’s . championship."