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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2579, 13 August 1909, Page 6

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PROPOSED SCULLING CARNIVAL AT FOXTON. (Per V rcss Association.) PALMERSTON N., August 12. The “Manawatu Daily Times” aid nounces that Mr. iS. Messena, of Foxton, to-day cabled to Mr. Cooinbes, of the Syidney “Referee,” withdrawing the stake deposited for a sculling match between Whelch ‘and Day, on the Manawatu River, as it was not covered in time. Mr. Messena, in conjunction with another Foxton sportsman, has decided, instead, to inaugurate an annual international sculling handicap on the long reach of the Manawatu River, three and a-half miles above Foxton, and will put two hundred pounds into the stakes, to which will be added twenty per cent, of the gate money. This gate money is. not to exceed two shillings and sixpence per head of the public, and the arrangement made with vehicle proprietors it that the fare out to the scene, of the race, to which there is a good road, shall not exceed two shillings and sixpence. The _ course, which is to be visited by Arnst on the 19 tli inst., is straight, dead water, with level banks four feet liigb, permitting an uninterrupted view. The proposal is to hold the event in the first week in December,, if the tide suits that week, the preliminary beats to be rowed on the Wednesday, the semi-finals and finals on the Friday, other sports occupying Thursday. It is understood that Dick Arnst, and probably also his brother, Fogwell, Pearce, Whelch, Day, and, it is hoped, Webb, and, in fact, all the prominent scullers will be taking part. Foxton is easily accessible by rail and other lines from Palmerston, and the course proposed is probably one of the finest in the world.