in Dunedin in 1924 (1925) and winning again in 1926. During the latter period Sir William was rowing for the Waitemata Rowing Club whose headquarters were then opposite the Railway Station on the waterfront road storage area. He competed in the Henley-On-Yarra Regatta at Melbourne in 1927 achieving second to the World's Champion of that period in the Single Sculls. Unfortunately around the late 1920s he was forced to abandon rowing while still in his prime, to concentrate his efforts on the pressures of a growing business. A little over two decades later he came back to the rowing world to take up the role of Coach for two of his sons, Bill and Jack, who he coached as a Double Sculls crew in the late 1940s. History repeated itself, when in 1952, 30 years later after his own success in the same Championships, he coached Jack into first place in the National Single Sculls Championship in Wellington. That same day, another father/son record was taken when Jack and Bill Hunter won the Double Sculls. The father/son team continued their success in the following years with Jack claiming seven more NZ titles. In 1954 Sir William coached Don Rowlands to the Empire Games in Vancouver, where another double achievement was realized when he was made Manager of the Rowing Team. Don Rowlands was successful in winning a Gold Medal. Sir William continued to assist Don in his sculling career on their return home and Don went on to win six NZ titles. With interests in the Waikato – Roose Shipping etc, Sir William came closer to the Mercer Rowing Club where he coached a four to take the NZ Championship at Invercargill in 1955. That crew consisted of Charlie Lofroth, Paul Bridgeman, Bob Parker and Norm Cox, all of whom worked for W. Stevenson & Sons Limited at some stage. There was however, one trophy Sir William had never coached a crew for, that being the Thompson Memorial Gold Cup for Inter-Businesshouse Rowing. In 1959 Jack suggested a crew and Sir William took up the challenge. Rules for the competition stated two experienced oarsmen, Jack in the Stroke seat and Paul Bridgeman in the No.3 seat and two novice oarsmen, Jon Twigg in the No.2 seat and Earle Wells in the bow. The coxswain was Colin Gray. This crew all worked at Kopuku at that time and trained on the