He should point out, however, that the Avon Club had not yet come to any decision upon the point. Mr Mounier said Mr Gundry had informed him that he was authorised to say the Avon were quite ready to amalgamate with the other Christchurch clubs. Mr Thomas said it appeared to him to be a question as to whether they should amalga mate with only one or all the Christchurch clubs. There could be no doubt as to the policy of amalgamation in some way, but if two crews were to represent Christchurch, then the Canterbury club should only amal gamate with one other club to select one of the crews, but if only one crew is to be selected to represent Christchurch then he thought all the clubs should amalgamate together. The Chairman said if all the clubs agi'ced to go in for amalgamation, the course to be adopted wa3 a very plain one j but until some definite understanding was arrived at on this point he did not see how they could do any thing in the matter. Personally he did not think they should for a moment entertain a proposal for anything short of a general amal gamation. In his opinion the Canterbury Club had quite as good men as could be got from the Union Clvb — (Hear, hear) — and although they might get one good man from the Heathcote Club, still he did not think the gain would be sufficient to induce a partial amalgamation, for he had not lost faith in their own club for providing a good crew. He (the chairman) was unquestionably in favour of a general amalgamation, but he was led to understand most distinctly that Mr Reese having now built a new boat, his crew would not consent to amalgamate, and although an assurance was given by Mr Gundry to the contrary, he thought they should have the authority for that before the meeting decided upon what course to adopt. If there was to be a general amalgamation ho would like to say, however, that he agreed with Mr Herdson's opinion that one person should be appointed to select tho crew, and that the selection should be made purely on points of merit without reference to clubs. 