SWIMMING CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1924, Page 6

SWIMMING CONFERENCE

(BI TILEOKAfB PREBJ ASSOCIATION.) •WANGANUI, This Day. The annual conference of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association was held this morning, Mr. W. Bishop, - of Christchurch, presiding. A Canterbury remit that the New Zealand record certificates, standard caps, and badges already won should be issued was carried. It was also agreed that the remit passed at the conference of centres for national standard handicapping should be immediately put into effect. A remit proposed by Hawkes Bay that all measures passed by the conference should be given effect to by the council was discussed at length, and finally withdrawn. It was reported that the revision and bringing up to date of the rules and regulations was now in hand, and that a new issue of the handbook was contemplated, i Regarding a remit a s to promoting interest in swimming among children in schools, it was decided to conduct a campaign towards obtaining a definite and regular grant from the Government for swimming purposes. It was agreed to recommend to the council that a small troupe of swimmers and divers should be brought over from Australia to tour New Zealand. ' i. A proposal that the intermediate class should be abolished and the junior age raised by two years was lost