ROWING
ABANDONMENT OF EIGHTOAR RACE (PA.) DUNEDIN, March 16. The interprovincial eight-oar race which was to have been rowed at Dunedin next Saturday has been abandbned. The race is for the Hally burton-Johnstone bowl, and the decision that it would not be held this season was reached by the Otago Rowing Association after advice had been received that the Southland crew had decided not to start. This would have left only Wanganui and Otago crews in the race, and the Otago Association was not prepared to hold it with only two crews Competing.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25445, 17 March 1948, Page 7
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