FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
BIG EFFORT NEEDED TO SEND EIGHT-OAR CREW. [Special to the ‘Stak.’] CHRISTCHURCH, April Ri. A plea for rowers to unite in a determined effort to raise enough money to ensure the sending to the Olympic Games of an eight-oared crew was made by the secretary of the Canterbury Rowing Association (Mr R. J, Hobbs) at a smoke concert in honor of the Canterbury eight-oar'crew last night. “ To get a New Zealand crew away to the Games is a very big hurdle,” said Mr Hobbs. “The trouble is that wo in Canterbury don’t know what tlio Olympic Association in Wellington is doing. They send very little correspondence, and I think they are making their effort too late. .They have asked each of the four main centres to collect £I,OOO, and we in Canterbury are doing very little. Eight-oar crews have shows us what they can do in New Zealand and Australia, and the Army crew showed what they could do in England, it is up to ns to'see that the present New s Zealand crew gets a chance to compete against the world.” “We intend having the next interprovincial eight-oar championship rowed from Corsair Ray to Governor’s Bay,” said the president of the Canterbury Rowing Association (Mr F. D. Kesteven). “It is a very fine course, and we hope to have a crew over from Sydney.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 14
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228FOR OLYMPIC GAMES Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 14
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