Change To Metric Distances Wanted
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright)
KINGSTON (Jamaica), April 19. The organisers of the 1966 British Empire Games in Kingston are hoping to be allowed to stage the swimming events over metric distances. This is to obviate the necessity to lengthen the present 50-metre national stadiuirt swimming pool here to 55 yards. Mr ■ Herbert Macdonald, Jamaican representative on the Games Federation advisory committee, which meets in London on April 28 told Reuter: “1 am going to the meeting in England for the prime purpose of trying to persuade the
swimming events in metres instead of yards. “We are in a metric region and that was why our pool was built 50 metres long. If they do not go along with my suggestion then we will have no alternative but to add the required inches to ' our pool, which will cost about £2500.” The pool is lljin short of 55 yards, the distance for Games swimming events.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30420, 20 April 1964, Page 12
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