NEW ZEALAND ROWING ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 106, 1 November 1904, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND ROWING ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MEETING. The seventeenth annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association was held last night, Mr. A. S. Biss, one of the Vice-Presidents, in the chair. The report and balance-sheet, summaries o/ which have already been published, were adopted on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. S. L. Partridge (Canterbury). The Chairman congratulated the Association on tne progress which it had made during the year, and referred with regret to the deaths of Messrs. J. White, of Dunedin, President of the Association, and G. H. Bethune, of Wellington. The election of office-bearers resulted as follows :— President, Mr. H. D. Bell (Wellington); Vice-Presidents, Messrs. J. James (Dunedin) and H. A. Marriner (Auckland) ; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. N. Galbraith (re-elected); Auditor, Mr. G. Fache (re-elected) ; Council, Messrs. G. F. C. Campbell (Auckland), R. M. Isaacs, and R. M'Villy (Otago), G. Lauchlan (Wellington), S. L. Partridge (Canterbury), R. F. Smith (Wellington), all reelected), and Mr. A. S. Biss (Wellington). Some discussion took place upon a proposal by the Auckland Association to amend Rule 2, which read that any club which should have- been in existence not less than three months, and which numbered not less than 20 paying members, should be eligible for membership upon being nominated by two clubs belonging to the Association. The proposal of the Auckland Association was that after the word "numbers," the words "and must always number," should be inserted in the rule. The motion was lost by 11 votes to 10. On behalf of the Wellington Association Mr. R. F. Smith moved : "Thai, in the opinion of the Association it is desirable that all races at regattas.be started by means of gunfire." The motion was carried by 15 votes to 6. The Wellington aud the Marlborough Associations each applied to be entrusted with the management of the next championship regatta. Mr. R. F. Smith moved that the regatta should be held in Wellington. The Wellington Association was, he said, prepared to find the necessary funds, but there was no such undertaking on the part of the Marlborough Association. As the Marlborough delegate was not present, Mr. J. R. GibbonSj one of the Auckland delegates, moved pro forma as an amendment that the regatta should he entrusted to the management of the Marlborough Association. The motion was carried unanimously. The regatta will therefore be held in Wellington. By direction of the Canterbury Association Mr. W. Coffey proposed that steps should be taken by the Council of the Association with the view of inducing the Australian rowing centres to send crews to compete at the next New Zealand championship meeting, and also with the view of sending a xvew Zealand crew to Australia. Mr. Partridge seconded the motion. There was a consensus of opinion by the delegates that a wonderful impetus would be given to rowing in this colony if Australian crews were to come over. The motion was agreed to. A bonus of £10 10s was voted to the Secretary. At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association last night permission was given to the Lyttelton Regatta Committee to row maiden races at their regatta in stump outriggers rs defined by the Canterbury Rowing Association. The resignation of the Horowhenua Boating Club was accepted.

At the Baptist Conference at Dunedin this week the Rev. Mr. Mudrhead spoke on the subject of the Church in relation to Labour. He said the relation of the Church to Labour should be one of sympathy with the oppressed, and that sympathy should be practical. The Church should help on every movement, social or political, that in any measure secured better conditions for workmen. This was sometimes called class legislation, but he 1 denied it, and showed by authorities that the working class was not a class. It was the nation. He believed the labourer would not be materially benefited until they had land nationalised and all monopolies municipalised. They should aim definitely at securing to every man and woman able and willing to work (1) food of at least equal quality and quantity to that supplied to criminals in gaols, (2) homes at least equal to the stables in which peers kept their horses, (3) equal opportunities of education. Let there be an aristocracy of merit, not of money, and he might add compulsory State life insurance, so that no one in old age might have to live on charity. For Influenza and Cold in the Head take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d.— Advt. For children's hacking cough at night take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Ib bd and 2s 6d — Adrt. For Bronchial Cough, take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d, everywhere. — Adrt