ROWING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 205, 4 October 1909, Page 3

ROWING.

AMATEUR ROWIXG ASSOCIATION. AXXUAL MEETING. By Telegraph.-Press Association. Wellington, Lu»l jNigni. The tweuty-secouu annual meeting of the Xew Zealand .iiiuucur Uo>viug°Associatiou was la-id on Sa.imi.i uHil Mr. U. W. ilcVm ; . p ; „ut. :i g. .; ~,°a . j ■were present from aucKi.°i.,, uuivKc's Bay, Wanganui, Wellington, jlailborough, Canterbury, and Otago. (Jllicera were electea as follows:—President, Mr. p. McCallum (Marlborough); vicepresidents, Messrs. J. Thomson (Hawke's Bay), R. s. Biss (Wellington); counc.'., Messrs. R. M. Isaacs (Otago), \V. Colfey (Canterbury), E. E. Hammond (Southland), Geo. Lauchlan (Wanganui), *R. \V. McVilly (Otago), .... n. Widdop (Wellington), W. Bridsou (Auckland); secretary and treasurer, Mr. A. 1). Bayfield; auditor, Mr. G. C. Facte. A motion by Canterbury to give fiats', caps and badges to Xew"Zealand champions met with considerable opposition, and was withdrawn.

New rules were adopted providing for (1) a representative of the Xew Zealand Amateur Rowing Association at evening regattas to see that the rules of the local association and of the Xew Zealand Association ai,. complied with; (2) the programme 01 >.,*-,, lew mi must be approved by Llie local n-"uein-(ion, and in the caw of championship meetings by the council of the X.Z.A. R.A.; (3) all races shall be started bv gunshot.

Wellington's motion that all championships be rowed «n smooth water, and, if on a river at slack tide, was defeated after a long discussion. The next championship regatta was awarded to the Marlborough Association, to lie rowed at Picton at least four weeks before the big gathering to be held at Hobart in February. Tbe council was) instructed to appoint a committee to select a team to compete in the interstate fpur-oared race at Hobart at that time.

Tflie Sumner Club was grauted affiliation.

Tt was suggested that the council obt linn legal opinion as to whether n professional may belong to an amateur club. vv ; -, —— - -5.