LIFE-SAVING
WEEKEND CONFERENCES
There will be considerable executive activity connected with the control of swimming and life-saving during the Labour Day weekend. Three conferences are to be held, at which delegates from every association will be present. ' At 11 a.m. on Saturday, the annual conference of the Royal Life-saving Society opens here. Delegates from the Dominion Council at Christchurch, Otago, Canterbury, Wellington, Manawatu, Wanganui, Taranaki, Auckland, and Hawke's Bay will be present. The distinguished service medal of the society is to be presented to Mr. N. A. Ingram, secretary of the New Zealand Life-saving Association. At 4 p.m. a general conference of delegates of the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association, the New Zealand Branch of the Royal Life-saving Society, and the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association is to commence, the object being the formation of a New Zealand Federation of swimming and live-saving interests. This will hi turn give way to the annual general meeting and conference of the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association. Delegates will be present from Canterbury, Otago, Wellington, Manawatu, Wanganui, Taranaki, and Auckland, and in all probability the delegates will be addressed by the Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 16
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196LIFE-SAVING Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 16
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