Swimming AUSTRALIANS’ VISIT

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28491, 22 January 1958, Page 15

Swimming AUSTRALIANS’ VISIT

Three Carnivals Only The three Australian swimmers who will visit New Zealand next week, lisa Konrads, Geryania Beckett and Roslyn Barton, will take part in only three carnivals—at Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington. Approval for the Auckland centre's arrangements for the visit was given at last evening’s meeting of the council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. “We have been trying for a long time to get a visit from Australian swimmers, and now we have succeeded, we must make sure that the report which goes back to Australia is a good one,” said the centre in a letter to the council. “The Australian association insists that the itinerary be light and no other engagements apart from these three carnivals be arranged." In a letter to the council, the Bay of Plenty centre said the Hawke’s Bay centre would like to hold the national senior championships in 1960. “We would be quite prepared to forgo our rota date for the championships of 1960 provided that we could have the Hawke’s Bay rota date of •1962,” said the letter. “Venues for national championships are decided only at annual meetings,” said the secretary (Mr Baxter O’Neill). “Hawke’s Bay is especially keen to get the 1960 date, but it will have to be decided at the next annual meeting of delegates.” Mr O’Neill was appointed the council’s representative at the national junior and intermediate championships at Dunedin, and the chairman (Mr V Reid) and Mr O'Neill will be the representatives at the national senior meeting in Christchurch. When the meeeting discussed applications for New Zealand records, the convener of the records committtee (Mr D. W. Cain) drew attention to the large variance revealed in some stop-watches used. “One watch in these records was found to be six-tenths of a second out over half an hour," said Mr Cain. “This has become most important, especially as we sometimes pass records Which are only one-tenth of a second better than old records. It seems as though we should have some margin by which records must be exceeded before a new record can be claimed,*' said Mr O'Neill. The council will seek information from watchmakers as to the period over which the watches should be tested for accuracy. The variance over this standard period will then be sought when centres apply for records. Six national swimming records were approved. Three of them are the result of a brilliant swim by the Canterbury intermediate, Colin McFadden, at Auckland, on January 3. The records are:— Miss Alison Bell, 2min 344aec for the 220 yards intermediate girls* freesgte, at Dunedin, on December 10, Donna Nolan, 2min *443sec for the ttO yards junior girls* freestyle, at Greymouth, on January 11. Colin McFadden, 4min 554 sec for the 440 yards intermediate boys* freestyle; for the 440 yards senior men’s freestyle: and for the 400 metres men's freestyle; all set at land on January 3. f John McGuinness. 2min 18.6 sec for the 220 yards intermediate boys’ fraeatylk, at Dunedin, on January 14.