Still-Water Life Savers Look For More Members

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31089, 18 June 1966, Page 24

Still-Water Life Savers Look For More Members

Members are wanted urgently by the Christchurch Still-Water Life Saving Club so that it can patrol swimming holes and send lifesavers with picnic parties next summer.

The club, which was formed three years ago, has done a good deal of work in training its own members and members of the parent Royal Life Saving Society, but it now hopes to expand its activities considerably—to become, in fact, the still-water equivalent of the surf life saving clubs. Activities which it has in mind, in addition to patrol work, include putting up warning signs in danger spots, publishing posters, giving demonstrations, and training volunteer members of the

public. Some of these activities will require more money than the club now has, but it is prepared to start public training classes immediately. The club, which includes both men and women, meets weekly for training in the Centennial Pool In the summer, and monthly in the St. John’s (Latimer Square) Church hall in the winter. In addition, it has social activities. There are about 20 active members, and about the same number of members who are inactive in the sense that they do not attend training or duty sessions but who give valuable support in other ways. The active members are all under 21, though older active members are welcome and in fact are very much wanted.