AQUATICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1908, Page 6

AQUATICS.

» ROWING ASSOCIATION. CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA FOR AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. The annual meeting of the delegates to the New Zealand Kowing Association was hold in -Wellington last evening, and officers were elected as follows:—President, Mr H. A. Marrlner (Auckland); vice-presidents, Messrs A. S. B_e (Wellington), F S. Myers (Dunedin): council, Messrs W. Coffey (Wellington), W. 4. Gaodin (Wellington), E. E. Hammond (Southland), It M. Isaacs (Otago), G. La-blan (Wellington), R. W. McVUly lOtago), J. E. Widdop (Wellington): secretary and treasurer, Mr A. D. _. Bayfield (Wellington); auditor, Mr G. C. 0 Fache (Canterbury). n Remits dealing with the registration of 8 . club colours and with the voting powers of _, delegates were negatived, as was a Marl- _ borough proposal to fix the championship b course in Picton Harbour. An Otago motion affecting the status of competitors ln * youths' races was also negatived. It was * resolved, ou the motion of an Auckland » delegate, that the chairman's ruling at the , last anuual meeting that a professional can , belong to an amateur club be expunged * from the minutes. It was decided that the 7 next championship regatta be held at Auckland. The chairman was asked to rule ou the point whether a fisherman was a professional. The chairman held that as a fisherman made his living with n boat he must be considered a professional.