LIFE-SAVING SOCIETY
Discussion On Best Instruction Method
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The New Zealand Life-Saving Society elected the following officers: President, Mr. G. D. Griffiths; vicepresident, Mr. C. F. Barnett; secretary, Mr. J. Breward; treasurer and award secretary, Mr. F. G. Glackin; delegate to the New Zealand Surf Life-Saving Association, Mr. A. Laurie; delegates to the National Committee of Swimming and LifeSaving, Messrs. J. O. Ilaworth and N. A. Ingram.
The council discusscd whether the McCabe method of group swimming instruction was best, some exception being taken to a resolution forwarded by (he National Committee of Swimming and Life-Saving stating an opinion it was the quickest and most effective method of teaching group swimming, and unanimously recommending the New Zealand A.S.A. to consider the advisability of the adoption of the method as standardised national basis. If there were a better method, said Mr. Ilaworth, the National Committee would he pleased to consider il, but at the moment it considered the McCabe method best.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 250, 21 October 1944, Page 2 (Supplement)
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