SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
A £SOO STAKE. (Per Press Association.) DARGAVILLE, this day. The Mayor, ,Mr Hornblow, presided over a public meeting last night to make arrangements for tho Australian _ and Neiw Zealand sculling championship to be rowed) on the Northern Wairoa river, .for which two contestants, McDevitt and Ceruiti, are already training on the river. Amongst other arrangements made it was decided that the course bo. miles, the stake to be £SOO. The date of tho race has not been finally decided upon, but it is expected that it. will be at the end of the first Week in June. It is claimed that the event will bo the biggest thing of its kind 1 ever held in the Dominion, and the first time an Australian andi Now Zealand championship wa.s ever row'ed under proper control. Many entries ha ve been received from prominent scullers in Australia and New Zealand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16423, 6 May 1924, Page 5
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149SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16423, 6 May 1924, Page 5
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