Rowing Club

This Club is in urgent need of new and active members. From a very ambitious start the Club has of recent years declined in popularity which has been evidenced by a general lack of club spirit and a tendency to leave the organising work to a small group of willing workers. We want this Club to flourish again, and this coming Easter to have the College adequately represented at the Tournament. This will not be possible without a keener interest on the part of present students. As now constituted Tournament rules apply to rowing, and only men who have been students for the requisite time for the previous year are eligible to compete in the Easter Tournaments.

Anyone with the least enthusiasm for rowing can be assured of a chance for the Eight. You can't come along on the week before the Tournament and expect to be placed in the boat by a thankful Committee. You must be a competent oarsman and have had a reasonable amount of experience. Rowing is a man's sport—every oarsman will tell you that—and as such its participants are subject to trenchant criticism by all the other participants. Ability to row a dinghy will not get you there, but by getting in touch with the Secretaty now, and given the opportunity of coaching and practise, any new member stands a fair chance for selection.

The Club is in a somewhat difficult position in that it owns no clubhouse or plant and it has of necessity been the practise to boat our Eight from local rowers who are interested in Varsity. It is our earnest hope that we will soon be able to boat our Eight from Varsity students who are interested in rowing.

This Easter, the powers that be who have jurisdiction over the Eights in Wellington declined to lend our crew a boat. The very sound reason given was that the suggested crew was not, in their opinion, of a fit enough standard to sit an Eight. Obviously, it will have to be a very capable crew that will gain the confidence of the authorities and while it would be splendid to be able to boat a crew of first-class oarsmen, our available membership makes this very difficult. It behoves us, therefore, to rally round and get our Club going on an independent basis. Although more funds are required, the Club has finance available and all that is required is co-operation and enthusiasm from Varsity students.

If you have any ambition for next year's crew, get in touch with the Secretary. The Annual Meeting will be held early in the last term so be on the lookout for the notice and roll along to the meeting to see what can be done. Any amount of bright schemes have been suggested and it only wants active support to put them into effect.