ROWING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 250, 9 October 1911, Page 2

ROWING.

NEW ZEALAND AMATEUR ASSOCIATION. Wellington, Oct. S. Tiie twenty-fourth annual meeting of delegates to the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association was b.rld last night, fourteen being present. The annual report stated that the financial position was satisfactory. The number of clubs affiliated to the .assoc:-ition is 52. with a total active and paying mt nii.-irsliip t.f 2919. Dining the year 2! regattas were t><lrl. tl’.c number of races being 177 mid the prize’ money amount -ng to Jti-100. The champimiship_ regatta was. held at Wanganui on l-cbi-uarv 25th. and was sue'ccssful, though the entries might have been larger. C. E. Stone', of Auckland, amateur champic-n sculler of New Zealand, had been cute red for the Champion Interstate Sculls cf Aust.ralns’a, but the i-’itry had been withdrawn, -is it was found that he cc-uid. not comply with the amateur defind !tm governing races in New South M ales. The council considers that there is not .'.-.ifficicnt matter at present to warrant the holding a conference of rowing reprcscnt a t i v r s.

In moving the e.iloriticn of the re-nt-it .and balance-sheet the chairman said the inert are in membership (or the year had been poor. There was net yet sufficient i'.ifi.mintu.n ns to ii’.c Olympic games at Stockholm. The clf'-tiim of officers resulted .as fellows: President. Sir Janies Mills; vice-prei-i k-nt». Mr. I'. D. Kestevcn and Mr. A. S. Biss ; council, Messrs. E. E. Haminmid, E. Innes, R. M. Isaacs. G. Lauclilftu. B. A. Morris, R. W. McV’lly. J. E. Widtlop ; score taiy r.ntl t.i-« asurcr, Mr. A. D. Bayfit id : .auditor, Mr. G. C. Fache. Rules In and 18 were deleted from the association’s rules for amateur' "-’1!. and the following was substituted as rule 10: —All events row cd at regattas held under the rules of the N.Z.TI.R.A. shall be open to crews cf -ill affiliated clubs that are not under suspe-nsion, provided that no member of -any such ertw shall have rowi d for any other club in ib.f same rowing centre within a period of three m< nths prior to tlir date of the regatta . A motion to make a new rule fixing the minimum weight of a coxswain at 7st was defcatrsr. It was decided that a register be kept by the secretary e.f the N.Z.A. R.A. containing the names of winners'at .all r< gait as held throughout Nt w Zealand under the rules of the association.

It was also decided tint matters viiprovidrd for in the rules should be dealt with by the council. Tiic chanip-onships: for 1911-12 were allocated to Otago. ’ They will he In Id in February on Lake W .nliola. Au application by -3. M. Jackson, late of the Blenheim Rowing (.’hili, foi )•:. instntt nient as an amateur was r< fu-u d.

Ti’c secretary was awarded an honorarium cf £l5 15/-. The Ntw South Males Association wrote that a New Zealand oarsman could apply for reinstatement in that State, and. subject to approval, could commte at any amateiir regatta bin (be Stale, Litt nc.t m interstate crams. The mat’er was left to the conur-il to dial with. T’nt avium cf tb.c cc-uneil in ruling ;h.at -i b<-at-biiildcr building racing boat.'- is a professional was endorsed. It was decided to obt'iin a legal opinion as to whether a boat-builder building other than racing boats is a prcfcssicnal within tb.c meaning of the association’s rules as tc. amateurs.

ALBANY v. J. AB VST. TO-DAY’S M \TUTL l.onclon. Oct. 7. J. Aand Albany are in excellent ce.ndi’.'mn for Monday's match ora r (he cl- impiciiship course cn the Tlianxs fo; a st.’iki of £-"><> a '-'de.