AQUATICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 308, 18 June 1896, Page 3

AQUATICS.

Mr Biss, who represented New Zealand in the recent Australasian Rowing Conference, has compiled for the information of the Rowing Association an exhaustive report on the proceedings. He suggests that each colony should be written to with a view to getting them to consent to a rule dealing with the amateur question, which would allow each colony to compete in inter-colonial contests under its own definition, with an additional provision that cash amateurs and professional watermen be barred. He is confident that the various associations will agree to this. He urges that a very big effort should be made to send a New Zealand eight to Melbourne for next year’s contest. The Australian Rowing Association has again been discussing regulations for future intercolonial races but adjourned without coming to a final decision. There is a desire among rowing men that the association should insert a provision to meet the case of New Zealand, so that where money prizes are taken by clubs but not by individuals, rowers shall not be ineligible.

At a meetins of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association, held in Wellington on Monday last, the secretary was instructed to communicate with the associations in the other colonies, inviting them to send crews to New Zealand next year, and urging that the following definition of amateur be adopted : — “ That all intercolonial rowing and sculling contests shall be open to crews or scullers representing Australasian amateur rowing associations, provided the competitors are amateurs under the definition of the several colonies which they represent; provided, further, that the definition of amateur oarsman in each colony be so framed as to exclude any person who is not an amateur in all branches of athletic sport; provided, also, that it includes all those who gain their livelihood by rowing in boats.”