AQUATICS.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 161, 28 November 1896, Page 5

AQUATICS.

The Committee of the Wellington Amateur Swimming Clut> met last evening, Mr. T. Evans in the chair. A letter was read from the Exhibition Committee giving its patronage to the gala of the 22nd January. Correspondence from the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association showed that one of the championships would be deoided in Wellington on 22nd January, and that a team of swimmers from Canterbury would take part in the meeting, the programme of which will be drawn up. Messrs. Home and S. Partridga and Mr. A. E. Craddock were appointed to represent the olub at the meeting of the Association in Christchurch. The first event of the President's Cup (200 yards) was fixed for December 19th. The semi-final heat of the Club Fours, Wellington Rowing Club, was deoided last evening, when Pearce (bow), Feeny (2), Kelly (3), Shilling (stroke) defeated Odlin (bow), Gordon (2), Duff (3), M'Laren (stroke). The final heat will be rowed on. Monday' evening. A<i a meeting of the Club Race Committee of the Star Boating Club, it was decided that the Senior and Junior Double Sculls should be the next races on tha Club's programme. The date for the first heats to be rowed was fixed for Saturday, 12th December, and the entries close on Monday next. The Temperance Party will hold a united meeting to-morrow night in the Opera House. Particulars appear in another oolunuv " ■ A singular, and perhaps unprecedented, application was made to the Otago Education Board, says the Otago Daily Times. An offer of a subsidy of £3 15s per pupil having been made to the settlers in an out-of-the-way locality to assist them in obtaining the benefit of education for their children, one of the applying settlers replied to the Board that the whole of the cost would fall upon him . and another person, and modestly asked the Board to grant him the sum .which would be ' allowed for each child with the view of having his family taught at home, as that would* enable him to keep someone to do the domestic work and allow his wife to spend her time in teaching the children. It is hardly necessary to say what view the Bourd took of this request.

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