TWO NEW ZEALAND RECORDS BROKEN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 7

TWO NEW ZEALAND RECORDS BROKEN

Otago Amateur Swimming Championships By Telegraple'-t’ress Association. DUNEDIN, December 8. Two Otago and two New Zealand records were broken at the Otago amateur championships which were concluded in the municipal baths tonight. Miss Wjtnie Dinin lowered Iter own record for the 1(H) metres breaststroke of 1.33 by 1 1.-5 seconds, ami Miss Christine Garvin registered 2.47 4-5 in the 220 yards intermediate girls’ free style, breaking Miss Kathleen Grey's record by a second. Colin Sell swam the junior boys' 75 yards backstroke in GO seconds, anti W. Dyson took 3.2 2-5 for the men's 220 yards breaststroke, both Otago records. Title winners’ are : — 75 Yards Intermediate Girls' Brctslstroke.—M. Stewart. Time. G 5 1-5. 75 Yards .Junior Boys' Backstroke. —C. Sell. GOsec. 100 Yards Intermediate Boys’ Breaststroke.-— 1. Wilson. 2.4 2-5. 100 Yards Women's Breaststroke.— W. Dunn, 1.2-1. 100 Yards Junior Girls' Freestyle. —A. Smith, 1.21 1-5. 220 Yards Women's Freestyle.— 1. Purdie. 2.54 3-5. Intermediate Girls' Diving.—R. Smith.

Women's Diving.—G. Rix. 100 Yards .Men's Freestyle.—E. B Toase. G 1 2-5. Men’s Diving.—D. Freeman.

220 Yards Men's Breaststroke.— W Dyson. 3 2-5.

Intermediate Boys' Diving.—R. B. Ingrain. 220 Yards Intermediate Boys’ Freestyle.—J. B. McGregor, 1.22 4-5. 100 Yards Women’s Backstroke.— 1. Purdie, 1.22 4-5. 220 Yards Intermediate Girls’ Freestyle.— C. Garvin. 2.47 4-5.

Grevcn, in the Muenster district of Germany, lias presented a 250-ton river bridge to the national collection of scrap iron.