DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 32, 1 October 1912, Page 6

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

"FESTIViAL >OF EMPIRE

(Per Press Association.) At the winding-up meeting the Festival of Empire Sports Committee last night, it was decided to hand over the credit balance pf .£3-3 5s Id. to the Olympic Games Committee. The local committee was formally dissolved.

PROFESSIONALISM IN ROWING

.The annual report of the Dominion Rowing Association shows a credit balance of £67 7s ild, and a balance of ps«ets oyer liabilities of £6l 7s Id. The number of affiliated clubs is 55, with a ; membership of 2921. , A legal opinipn as to professionalism of iboatnj?tnilders -was obtained and is to the effect that boat-builder was not professional unless the builder sold boats to ;a rowing club, as ho would then be deriving pecuniary profit from the f unds.' of • the club.

GENERAL STRIKE FEARED

Dunedin, October 1

The local railway officials have received instructions to lay in large supplies of '.coal, as soon 'as possible, in view-of any emergency, arising through the coal mines closing down if a general strike is ordered.