CAMPAIGN EFFORT
THE TEACHING OF SWIMMING.
TEAM OF WOMEN SELECTED. EXTENSIVE TOUR. PROPOSED. (Per Press Association.) , CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.. f What is described as the finest team of women swimmers ever assembled in New Zealand has been selected by. the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association to make an educational tour of the Dominion in the forthcoming season." ■ ~v The team is: Mrs E. C. Isaac (Dunedin), former Dominion diving champion, who is the manager; Miss Mona Leydon (Auckland), ffee-style eliamr pion and record-holder and Empire Games swimmer; Miss Kathleen Grey (Auckland), intermediate champion and record holder; Miss Winnie Dunni.(Dunedin), breast-stroke champion and record holder, and Empire Games swimmer; Miss Joyce MacDonald (Invercargill), hack-stroke champion and record holder and Empire Games swimmer.
The team will start its tour as soon as the necessary arrangements can he made, and it is proposed that the tomwill continue throughout the entire swimming season, terminating probably about the end of March. All parts of New Zealand will be visited. -■
The principal purpose of the tour is to teach swimming to school-children, and it will form an important part of the campaign which is being undertaken this summer for teaching 75,000 persons to swim.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 45, 2 December 1938, Page 5
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