That, the average number of drown Ing fatalities in New Zealand a few years ago was 150 per year was stated by Mr. H. H. Henderson, president of the Otago Head Centre of the Royal Life Saving Society) at a function at the Otago Boys’ High School. He added that latterly the figures had been falling every year. This result was put down solely to the fact that more and more were acquiring a knowledge of life saving. The release and rescue work could be acquired only by competent swimmers, but resuscitation was a simple matter, and could be acquired by any boy in a few lessons. He maintained that no boy should leave a secondary school without a knowledge of resuscitation.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 188, 8 May 1934, Page 7
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