UMPIRE GAMES.
ROWING REPRESENTATIVES. COACH APPOINTED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. At a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association to-night, Mr. H. Ayres, of Christchurch, w r as appointed coach of the Dominion’s rowing representatives for the Empire Games at Sydney in February. As an oarsman Mr. Ayres had a longhand successful career and wns a New Zealand champion. His record as coach is also notable. In that capacity he accompanied the New Zealand oarsmen in Sydney in 1925 when their unbeaten record included successes, in the New South Wales champion
eights, champion sculls and invitation
fours. Mr. Ayres was also the coach of the crew which represented the Dominion at the Empire Games at Hamilton, Toronto, in 1934, and of the Canterbury crew which won the first interprovincial eight-oared championship in New Zealand.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 November 1937, Page 2
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