AQUATICS

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 351, 15 April 1897, Page 12

AQUATICS

At a general meeting of the committee of the Auckland Annual Regatta, held last week, the secretary reported that the receipts amounted to a little over £309, out of which £217 had been paid away in prize money. Some accounts which had been outstanding for some years had also been wiped off, and there was a balance of over £6 in hand. Mr Nathan (chairman) expressed great pleasure at the efforts of the committee having been so successful, and moved a cordial vote of thanks to Mr C. C. Dacre, for the energetic manner in which he had worked to make the regatta a success. The motion was unanimously carried, and Mr Dacre in returning thanks, asserted that it only required a little combined action on the part of the committee to raise all the funds needed to carry the regatta to a successful issue. On April 7 the final contest tor the sculling handicap in connection with the Auckland Rowing Club took place, and resulted in a splendid race between Baker, Dean, and A. W. Patterson. After an exciting finish, Baker won by about two feet from Dean, with Paterson very close up.