ROWING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 148, 17 March 1908, Page 9

ROWING.

]■. NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION. . ■ !: A meeting >pf.,-the,-Now '.Zealand Amateur ■Rowing Association'was-held iut night, Mfc' :H.;vW.i'M;-:TiUyiprMidmj.jL- .-■' The;.hon> :, '»eorßtaryj-Ur.eA-. I Bajrfleld, was ■ appp'int^d-itojiiepresont.'the-.Association at the' ■■'.•■ New Zealand Champiousjiip Regatta, to' bo ■ held at Napier on Monday. : Mr. Morton,. hMTing resigned-the position of ;rpi)ref»c>iitativt'' : <>f;'•Auckland -■ on. the Council, owing tt'o. removal from Wellington,' Mr. Uares jwas appointed '-tofill the. vacanoy .1;:>■; s; , ; i.Thp;tCoiincil approved the application of -tfiej/Queenstown . residents ito iholdlta . rowinj- j' ; regatta under the conduct of ;tlio, Association" »• at-Easter. "Members expressed the • hope,;that; • " itlip.i'fortheominjf r regatta ; would : lead, .to' the' .-- establishment of ' rowing'on liake' Waiatipu!-. ; ;The 'S6uthland 'Association .wrote 'complaini. ling' of the. conduct, of the Bluff Regatta Com-- V iriitteo-in failinj to hold the" rowing races on •itSi.lprpKtamnia.'; On the day of the rcjatta'bad i .V." [weather tos.- experienced, race«rhadf :: ltqr.be- postp^ed.^.ou^!-thft'l.:CoVniiiitf«»-'diil-" noC ' . 'a\'rango to *h'6ld" the races irithiii ; th« "itipu- . liitcd period (thirty days), and, as a matter: of. facf.vthe . races>.hnd flo.t yet. been . jet - off. ;lt was decided to l nsk. the- Comnutteo-for 1 «S' explanation before proceedmj further, in-' tho linatter. y .