SWIMMING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 13

SWIMMING.

!P. HANAN IN HOSPITAL. I APPENDICITIS OPERATION. I | CHANGE DT CARNIVAL DATE. I Peter Hanan. who represented S'piv Zealand at tlic Kmpirn Games and 'returned from Sydney by tlie Awatea on ', Tuesday, was opeiated on for appendicitis ion Wednesday evening and is making a steady recovery in hospital. This precludes , Hanan from defending his senior .AuekIland title next month. The question of fixing a date for eon-

testing the senior swimming championships of Auckland was further discussed yesterday by the management committee of the Auckland Centre -.if the New Zea- j | land Amateur Swimming Association. It j 1 I was decided that, subject to confirmation | j ! from the Xew Zealand Council of April 4 ] i as being the date of the arrival of _ the ! ; Knglish champion, X. Waimvright, in M Auckland, the resolution to hold the ! : championships on March 30 should be 1 | rescinded, and that they should take place | ; on April 4. I j Championship events approved:—Men: I KM) yards, 2"20 yards, 440 yards free-style, ' > 100 yards backstroke, ]00 yards, 220 yards | breaststroke. Ladies: 300 yards. 220 | yards. 440 yards free-style. 100 yards backstroke, 100 yards, 220 yards breaststroke. | It was resolved that events for which I there was only one competitor should not ! be swum in tile carnival. Supporting events to be included on tlie programme:—666 2-3 yards inter-club relay 'championship: 100 yards Mount I'.d on 'junior boys' championship: .">OO yards inter- I club relay championship, five men a-side, | for the Tili .Memorial Cup: 220 yards interclub dual relay championship for the Batty Cup: 33 1-3 yards tiny tot boys' Auckland championship; 33 1-3 yards tiny I'tot girls' Auckland championship. The j final of the water polo championship was also added. j It was decided to notify clubs to close their season on .Tuly 31 next, and to hold i their annual meetings not later than early 'in September. Owing to the fact that I the Nfew Zealand conference of centres ■ would take place on October 22, it was | I agreed that the centre's annual meeting! " should be held on September 19. |