Unemployment Reflected in Rowing Club’s Record
f\\E would hardly realise that V' unemployment could have such a vastly detrimental effect on the sport of rowing. But. according to Captain H. H. Sergeant, president of the West
End Rowing Club, which held its “At Home'* last evening , the unemployment of a number of the members was the reason for the club's lack of success at regattas last Captain Sergeant season. Owing to unemployment, club members were unable to finance the usual trips to outside regattas. Another adverse factor was that the military camps kept oarsmen engaged in territorial duties at the height of the season.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 386, 21 June 1928, Page 15
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104Unemployment Reflected in Rowing Club’s Record Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 386, 21 June 1928, Page 15
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