CANTERBURY TEAM

Press, Volume C, Issue 29563, 12 July 1961, Page 17

CANTERBURY TEAM

Championship Arrangements The Canterbury Swimming Centre will investigate chartering an aircraft to Iring the Canterbury team back from the national swimming championships in Wellington next February. SI ■k I® The team, expected to number about 30, will travel to the meeting by the interisland ferry and be accommodated at a '‘swimmers’ village,” to be established at the Trentham Military Camp. But as the camp has to be vacated by the swimmers on the morning after the championships end the Canterbury team will have to be flown home by special aircraft. Suggestion Discarded The management committee of the centre came to this conclusion last evening, it discarded a suggestion that the team be quartered in three hotels in Petone. A letter from Mr G. D. Head, accommodation officer for the championship®, said accommodation. catering and transport arrangements for the camp were well in hand. Mrs L. Piper said the cost a head of the trip would be about £2O. It would be no cheaper than sending a team of similar size to Tauranga, said the secretary (Mr J. H. Johnson). The cost, in respect of having to leave Trentham on a Sunday, was unwarranted, said Miss D. Brown. But from the point of view of organisation, the Trentham scheme was very good.

The meeting decided that the 1961-82 Canterbury championships would be held 'on January 13, 16, 17 and 18, and that three one-hour time trials would be held on October 28, November 4 and 11.

Swimmer Of Year Award A Canterbury Swimmer of the Year award will be instituted, the management committee of the Canterbury Swimming Centre decided last evening. It accepted ap offer from Messrs D. N., I. and L. Cain that a trophy for this purpose be given the centre, in memory of their mother. The four brothers have all been active in swimwiing and swimming administration. A letter from Mr D. W. Cain received by the n£eting said it was envisaged that .the trophy Should be awarded not only for preaent performances but also for the potential of the competitor as a swimmer, coach or administrator. The committee decided tn invite Mr Cain to meet 11 to discuss conditions of the award. Full Voting Power For Miss D. Brown Miss D, Brown, a Otte member of the Canterbury Swimming Centre, was invited last evening by the management committee of the centre to join its ranks, With full voting power. A vacancy occurred on the committee with the elevation of Mr J. H. Johnson to the secretaryship. Miss Brown regularly attends committee meetings. She is well knawn as the secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association.