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LEARN TO SWIM.
ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN.
AUTHORITY IS SOUGHT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CKRISTCHURCH, this day. A Departmental ruling giving teachers authority to insist on children taking swimming instruction will be sought by the educational officers of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. The annual conference of these officers carried a motion this morning that the Education Department be asked to give a, ruling on the authority of a teacher to insist on children who had no reasonable excuse for not doing so participating in swimming instruction.
''We hope to reach the goal of saying that every child in New Zealand physically able to do so can swim, and 1 think it is not blind optimism to say that the goal is now within measurable distance," said the president of the association, Mr. F. G. Dunn, when welcoming visitors to the conference.
"In the last three years 90,000 children have gone through the educational officers' hands and that is a record of which they are entitled to be very proud," he added.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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