Local Committee Recommendations

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28299, 10 June 1957, Page 8

Local Committee Recommendations

Recommendations from the *l6 local water safety committees throughout New Zealand were dealt with at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Water Safety Council in Christchurch on Saturday. Many of the recommendations were in direct contrast, some urging less money to be spent on advertising and others that there was not enough. A recommendation from the Southland committee that representatives of local committees travel to Wellington ip May to meet the national committee was favoured by the meeting. The executive was given power to act if sufficient finance was available. The Physical Education Department’s representative on the council (Mr D. R. Wills) is to investigate the extension of the campaign to private schools. A recommendation from the Taranaki committee asked that particular attention be paid to Roman Catholic schools.

“In Taranaki, although 110 out of 120 schools under the jurisdiction of the Taranaki Education Board have their own swimming pools or adequate facilities for teaching swimming, few, if any, Roman Catholic schools are so provided,” said the Taranaki recommendation. “Also Roman Catholic schools do not have the same benefits obtained by ordinary schools of qualified teachers of resuscitation and learn-to-swim activities.”

“I understand that any private school has only to ask and it will be helped,” said the chairman (Mr Baxter O’Neill).