Swimming club in jeopardy

Press, 20 October 1981, Page 6

Swimming club in jeopardy

Woolston Park, one of the more prosperous of the smaller swimming clubs in Christchurch in the last few years, is in danger of being forced into recess.

The club’s annual meeting is tonight in the Woolston school library, but there is a danger it will not have a quorum according to its secretary, Mrs P. Winter, let alone enough people to form a committee to continue the club this season.

Last year the membership of the club dropped 40 per c< it and this season the predicament facing the club is worse.

Its president is seriously ill in hospital and the treasurer (the president’s wife) is unable to devote as much time to the club. To complicate

matters there is no club captain or vice-president, but the last straw was the resignation of the pool manager of the last two years because of ill health.

If the pool has to close because of a shortage of manpower to tend . it, both the public and schools in the area will suffer. Also lost will be the valuable contribution the dub makes to the learn-to-swim- programm. Each season the club has passed more than a 100 young swimmers through the programme.

“The pool belongs to the people of the district,” said Mrs Winter, “but if they want it to continue they have to be prepared to help run it.”