LIFE-SAVING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 203, 29 August 1939, Page 17

LIFE-SAVING.

AUCKLAND CENTRE.

ACTIVITIES IN SCHOOLS.

WELLES LEY ST. PRAISED.

Officers elected at night's annual meeting of the Auckland Head Centre of the Royal Life-Saving Society:— Patron. His Majesty the King; vicepatron, the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis: president. Mr. A. Macgregor : life-governors. Drs. T. H. Pettit and Mr. D. J. F. Langley ; vice-presidents, Drs. Garfield Stewart. T. H. Pettit, Messrs. D. B. Anderson, A. Dicker, •T. K. Dellow, F. W. Gamble. R. A. Lakllaw. W. C. Morris, B. M. Hayson. C. M. Littlejohn, D. M. Rae. J. W. Williamson, J. N. Peart, Mieses R. Edwards. E. M. Johnston, A. L. Louden, L. Clouston ; chairman, Mr. K. C. IJeid ; chief examiner. Mr. J. Stewart; chief instructor. Mr. K. C. Reid ; medical officer, Dr. T. H. Pettit; auditor, Mr. L. M. Lennan ; executive committee. Misses J. Harp. E. Tilsley. Messrs. A. Gardner, A. Dicker, O. Mills, J. Stewart. G. Thomas; registrar, Miss .1. Harp: delegate to New Zealand Council. Royal Live-Saving Society, Mr. L. Clarkson; delegate to the Auckland Primary Schools' Swimming and Life-Saving Association. Miss E. Tilsley; delegate to the Auckland Centre New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, Mr. B. Zublevich : delegate to the Surf LifeSaving Association (Auckland), Mr. C. Iremonger; secretary-treasurer, Mr. D. J. F. Langley. Mr. Macgregor in moving the adoption of the report referred to the interest of the Royal Family in the society. He paid Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose had both gained awards of the society during the year. Praise was due to the Auckland Primary Schools' Swimming and Life-Saving Association, in particular, the president stressed, the efficiency of teams from the Wellesley Street School, which had won the primary schools' life-saving championship. the judges reporting that the standard set by these teams was of the highest. The principal, Mr. B. M. Hayson, was deserving of congratulation. Excellent, work had been done by the combined swimming and life-saving committee in promoting the "learn-to-swim" campaign in the Auckland district. The president also expressed the centre's congratulations to the Newmarket Borough Council (or constructing an Olympic pool. Mr. T. C. Hobbs-Jones. the chairman of the combined committee, paid a tribute to the centre for the active part it had taken in the "learn-to-swim" campaign. The success of these was due in a large measure to its interest. An appeal for the society's support of the displays to be staged during the New Zealand Centennial Games was made by the , prephjent. It was hoped, he said, that thousands of representatives of recreational organisations would participate in the processions and mimetic displays. An account of the steps taken to introduce among the schools of the Dominion i the tyi>e of pool in use at the Cornwall Park School was given by Dr. T. H. Pettit.