SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19, 24 January 1911, Page 8

SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

For the first time in the history of swimming, Wellington will this year conduct the New Zealand swimming championship meeting. The gathering will be a three-days' one, commencing at Te Aro Baths on Saturday, 4th February, and continuing on Wednesday and Saturday, Bth and 11th February. Swimmers from all over New Zealand will attend, including a contingent of about thirty or forty from Canterbury. Auckland also is sending a big team down, headed, of course, by Malcolm Champion, of whom big things are expected. Hawkes Bay will be represented in the polo competition and in the teams' race, aud they are relying on G. Seymour to win the 100 yds championship. Nelson, Wanganui, and Wairarapa districts are all sending competitors, and the general prospects are for the most successful championship meeting yet held. ' Wellington, too, with such men as Healy, Freyberg, Brice, Roberts (the two latter in the "100"), and others, should have a good chance of success. The gathering is timed to start at 2.30 each afternoon. The 100 yds and the mile events will be decided on the first day. j News has b'etn received in Wellington ! to the effect that the Canterbury representatives in the big races at the meeting will be : C. Atkinson, C. H. Rich, and G. L. Bull. Mr. Rich will act as manager of the team.

The charge on which Archibald M'Lean was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on 3rd December last Avas not that of being a rogue and. a vagabond, as bktted in our report at. the .time, but that "he was deemed bo be an idle and disorderly perse© within the meaning of the Police Offences Act, 1908, in that he had insufficient lawful means of suppoit." Exports from New Zealand ior^the half-month oi" January amounted in value to £1,510,763, ;in increase of £221,899 o\er the mricsponding j)eiiorl of 1910. Principal increases aie in rabbits, butter, cheese, and mutton and lamb.