PORT CHALMERS ROWING CLUB.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13079, 15 September 1904, Page 2

PORT CHALMERS ROWING CLUB.

The annual report of the Port Chalmers Rowing Club for the past teafou is as follows:

AVo have great pleasure in submitting to thi meeting the thirty-first annual report of our club. Tli© season 1901V1904 has been an extraordinary one, and we are pleased to congratulate the c'mb 011 its great success. The New Zealand Championships woro rowed at Waihoia in March of this year, and our club did well, winning the Champion Fours anil Champion Pairs. This is great honour, and it behoves the members to work energetically together, and so keep up the reputation of tho club. Nearly all sporting clubs after they get a bit ancient and have done well, have a record that members can feel proud of, and suoh a club tho committee considers the Port Chalmers liowing Club to be. At the Otago regatta we had crews entered in nearly every race. Although good performances were put up v;o wero placed only in the Maiden Double Sculls and Senior Pairs. Coming to, our balance sheet, we find that our income may be summarised 'as follows:-Credit balance from last season, £39; subscriptions from honorary and nclivc members, £20 10s; regatta, prize money, £G5; sale of boat and oars, £1 12s Cd; members' subscriptions to presentlions, £2 10s; while our expenditure is its follows;— Freight, cartage, etc., £9; payment for plant, £80; repairs and rencwa'.s to plant, £17; regatta extras and entrance fees, £-27 10s; sundries, ;620 10s. Our income was £101 17s 3d, expenditure £IG2 Ifis Cd, leaving a ereat balnnco of XI 0s 9d to carry forward for this fici.f-on. This balance is rather sbrtiing after last year's credit balance, but this year wo have added considerably to our p!nnt, and consider that there should bo no Isigo expense under this beading for u considerable time. During tho year we have had a new stage elected, and have bought a new clinker four, a best-andl-best four, and five sets of oars, wid fit the present time (lie p.ant is in bettor condition than it has been for yea,re, and it shows great credit lo our present committee. By tho timo this report is put befoic you Colonel Ihuchop will have arrived in our midst, and our welcome to him will bo a mrtter of tho past. Although perhaps there will be no chance of tho Colonef again taking up rowing actively, wo may be sure that wo havo r. staunch supporter in hici wherever he may be. This year the committee recommends that at the iinnual meeting the by-laws of tho club be thoroughly examined, and that members and officers of the committee bo elccted with tho object of the club appeariu« even higher in the rowing world in the futuro than in the past.