SWIMMING LESSONS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 9 July 1929, Page 8

SWIMMING LESSONS.

! IN MUNICIPAL BATHS. i COUNCIL GRANTS APPLICATION. i i I "Mr J. Breward, formerly temporary j male assistant at the baths, has applied ! for permission to teach swimming at the baths, and to tntke a. charge there- ; for," reported the Baths Committee to the City Council last evening. "Mr Brevard has bad extensive experience in the teaching of swimming, and the committee considers that it would be very mueh in the interests of the baths ;;nd swimming generally in Canterbury if he were permitted to carry out his desire. "Under existing regulations a per- ! Mit such as this can only be granted for one month, and the committee recommends that Mr. Breward be given the permission he requires on a montb-to-month basis." Cr. D. G. Sullivan, MJP., said he wanted the committee to take the clause j back. Mr Breward was a fine young man, but the speaker thought it a I wrong principle to place the City's ! assets at his disposal to enable him to ! make money. Such a proposal would \ set up a bad precedent, and he hoped I the committee would consider that | aspect of the position. j Cr. M. E. Lyons expressed regret that i Cr. Sullivan had not consulted the chairman of the committee. If he | had done so he would Lave gained a ; different outlook on the question. There j was a teacher in Auckland, whose seri vices had resulted in a tremendous I increase in swimming. This was what ; it was aimed to do in Christchureh. Cr. T. H. Butterfield (chairman of ■ the committee) said that the commiti tee, feeling dissatisfied at the methods of teaching obtaining at the bath, came to the conclusion that a change was necessary. It believed that the proposal would do mueh to increase the popularity of the bath. The clause v?as adopted. The Baths Committee also reported: "In the past, half the amount rei ceived for swimming instruction fees at I the Municipal Baths has been allocated j to the bath attendants in proportion to i the amount of instruction which they have given, the remaining half being retained by the Council. "It has come to the notice of the committee that this arrangement is not entirely satisfactory, particularly in view of the fact that persons taking out tickets are a.sked to indicate from whom they wish to receive instruction, with the possibility that one n-jember of the baths staff may receive the whole of the attendants' share of the fees. "The committee therefore recommends that the arrangement whereby the employees receive 50 per cent, of the fees be abandoned, and that the work be part of the ordinary duties of the baths attendants. "Of the lady attendants, Miss A gas six has done the greater amount of instruction, and in view of the fact that she is to be deprived of a 6hare of the swimming fees the committee recommends that her salary be increased by 5s per week." The report was adopted.