THE OTAGO ROWING CLUB

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 9

THE OTAGO ROWING CLUB

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Your correspondent's letter of February 27 signed "Lurline" calls for a reply. " Lurline" makes me out as saying the site of the Otajro Boathouse would be near where the Wharf Hotel now stands. This is quite wrong. I never suggested such a thing. " Lurline seems to overlook the fact that there are two ends to the wharf. What I did say, and what I now repeat, is that the club's boathouse, when I first fcnew It, was not far from the end of the Rattray street wharf—not at the city end, but at the channel end of it. slightly to the westward, and near that part of the harbour that took a sweep to the northwest, commonly known as Pelichet Bay. As to who built the boathouse, where the first site was, or who it was sold to-* these are matters of which I have no knowledge, as these events took place some years before I came to this city. I do not know "Lurline's" identity, but if he will do me the honour I will be very pleased to show him through our fine new boathouse which now occupies a land site. Then, perhaps, we can compare notes as to the various positions the club has occupied, both> ancient and modern. am, etc., J. M'Grath, President of the Otago Rowing Club. Dunedin, March 5.