AVON ROWING CLUB.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 4 September 1930, Page 7

AVON ROWING CLUB.

ANNUAL REPORT AND BALANCE - SHEET, f Tie forty-ataik naul report ti Bowing Club, t« be pressnted at ft« aw«al. L j meeting on September 15th, states ftrttto - lf, T many rem. After operation* the, otgrdraft of •been reduced to £8 17a *d. Aauwy tts -■■ oeipti wa» £OB won at rqgattae. t "increased amount received from ingi and iubaeriptloas. - r 1 J Thirty-three new members wen 1 - during the year, while 29 .U received. The .member*hip, y(Hh W **■ ■ flgorm given In parentheses, menftera 16 senior actfva 28 iWJr"' -'*• junior active (89). honorary 36 (10). . Total,. .. l* s . > Although the figurea Showed aalight 1 ««<**», * it waa to ba recretted that clibe In .the active membership. a*. /. * During the aeaaon tfce plant had bMkJMM.v ia good repair, and it ahould be t v 'f order for the coming aeaaon. „ It 'bad ««*•.> ,5 * i-il supplemented with a email shipment tiee oars, and next season delivery vpected of one set of best tubular aculls,v*nd , - one aet of practice scttlla. ;■ v> a-'. ■' • During the season eleven elub. raeea m held, giving the awtoi -W*. to participate In rfeinx euHomgg, erents were rather dUappointing, that mora keenness wonld be ' JMjkl f.' ~i*: season. The races for, the Lamb KeaawdfU t . Oup and Butcher Oup were hald' for as \ * ■titne, the winnera 'of the former .. Bushworth (atr), F. H. Thompaojl; Lanause (3), and T. Brrttdl T'ft the latter JBL Warlaw (stt) and-B. .(bow), ' i., <£ a \ iff jp ,salti'M-i<» During tha ae#aoa th« _el*b ,wa»-ii(upp|i | iilf A ed in teven regattas Akarea, Wellington, Pic ton. (H,Z. .J cKfcmpJonMMia>>|-.''. ;;' f Wangacni, Kalapol,"an< Pat, Aabuii.' ■the' ;iMw, Zealand club aeeured more flrata thati any Other «W6 •'Vr' in the Dominion, tha junior four. Junior and youth*' four all being eueeeisful. 'Ttfw * junior four deserved special Praia* for.belhg .. unbeaten in their claia at- the_ fonr at which they competed. "" , .. Q ' / . The report congratulates one of (ha club's members, F. H. Thompson, en hls.incliuiotv.; in the New Zealand eight at the Bmp^ri' Games, and tha Canterbury Bowing o]n£?eft r I,f their success in again bring Head of th« Blvar. J ' Two additional cups had been presented « •*;' for club i ncea The Lamb Henwxial. .Oup, 1 the gift of Mr 8. A. Boot, la to ba siwjU' v ' for an annual fottr*oared, raee open C' bers of at'least threeyearsV- standing,, Knd 'Aa»*j ~' v .4 Butcher Cap, the gift of ICr 0. S. is to be allocated to tha lighter oarsmea ac - the clnb. " n The report notes with regret the death ajt. ' Mr A. O'Malley, for flva years a viae JIM' dent of the ehtb. Reference is also made to .«ha am opening day, of tha annual smoka *" , and of the social evenings.