ROWING PROGRAMME

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 6

ROWING PROGRAMME

ANSWER TQ CHRISTCHURCH COMPLAINT. The Canterbury Rowing Association decided last night to writ© to the Wellington Regatta Committee regretting its decision to substitute the interprovincial fours for the usual senior fours at the regatta to be held at Port Nicholson on February 24th. The executive decided to enter a Canterbury crew for the interprovincial fours at the Wellington Club’s regatta. In explanation, the secretary of the Wellington Association stated that the position is that the oontrol of the interprovincial championship fours for this season has been allotted to the Wellington Association, whioh has decided that the race shall he rowed in conjunction with the annual regatta. The Regatta Committee therefore dropped '-he customary senior fours, which is an inter-club race open to all New Zealand clubs, from their programme m order that men who might otherwise he required for their own club crews should he enabled to devote their whole attention to training for the interprovincial race. He also pointed out that no Canterbury crew has competed in the senior fours at Wellington since 1913, and that the Regatta Committee had not considered the Canterbury request for an amendment to the programme, after their experience lust season, when they altered! the whole order of events to suit the Avon Club, only to find that the club failed to make the promised entries.