ROWING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20544, 20 February 1935, Page 12

ROWING.

Training of Eight-oar Crew at Akaroa Urged. That the Canterbury representative crew should train on Akaroa Harbour was a suggestion made by the Akaroa Boating Club in a letter read at a meeting of the Canterbury Rowing Association last night. The association referred the question to the selectors and the boat committee for a report. , There were present at the meeting. Messrs P. D. Kesteven (president), R. E. Nightingale, E. S. Velvin, A. K. Woodhani, C. A. Stiles, A. T. Evans, J. B. Taylor, C. R. Hervey, J. H. Williams, W. Miles, A. A. Sutherland, W. Q. A tack, F. L. Booth and R. J. Hobbs (honorary secretary). . The Kawatiri Rowing Club (Westport) applied for a transfer of its affiliation from the Canterbury Association to the Marlborough Association at the end of this season, in view of easier transport to Picton and Nelson. The meeting decided to offer no objection to the transfer. No action was taken upon reception of a letter from the Union Club recommending that the status of rowers be not affected by regattas at which the races were of under three-quarters of a mile. The club was of opinion that regattas held over a short course and rowed in heats, as at Kaiapoi, were not a genuine test of an oarsman’s ability and did not warrant the loss of status. Regatta at Redcliffs. Some discussion took place on the question as to whether the Redcliffs Regatta on the Sumner Estuary on March 16 should be recognised as an official regatta, for which points should count for the D.C.L. Cup. Finally the programme was approved. The programme is as follows: —Light-weight maiden fours (under lOst), senior double sculls, maiden fours, youths double sculls, senior fours, junior double sculls, youths’ fours, maiden double sculls, junior fours, light-weight maiden double sculls, welter-weight junior fours (under lOst 71b). , Use of an eight-oar boat was fronted to the Canterbury University Club tor the inter-university race at Dunedin on Easter Saturday, and for fourteen days previously. _ , . , March 9 \fas fixed as the date for an afternoon’s racing on the Avon for novices and non-regatta men from the river clubs. Head of River Races. Following is the draw for the head of the river races on the Avon next Saturday : * _ . . . v . Youths’ Pairs— Canterbury No. 1 Avon, Canterbury No. 2 v. Union. Maiden Pairs—Avon No. 1 y. Canterbury No. 2, Avon No. 2 v. Union No. 1, Union No. 2 v. Canterbury No. 1. Light-weight Maiden Pairs—canterbury v. Union No. 2, Avon v. Union No. 1 ’ Junior Pairs—Union No. 2 v. Avon No. 1, Canterbury No. 2 v. Union No. 1, Avon No. 2 v. Canterbury No. 1. Senior Pairs—Avon v. Canterbury.