CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 11

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

SWIMMING AND LIFE-SAVING

Matters concerning the policies of the swimming and life-saving bodies of the Dominion were dealt with at the annual conference yesterday afternoon of the National Committee of Swimming and Lite-saving. The committee was appointed last year to deal with the national aspects of the work of the three bodies.

Delegates attended as follows:— Messrs. F. G. Dunn and B. O'Neill ([New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association), G. iS. Billson and J. Breward (Royal Life-saving Society), F. H. Jackson and A. Gardiner (New Zealand Surf Life-saying Association). The following members of the; committee attended: Messrs. P. F. Coira (swimming), J. L. Dighton ' (lif e-savingy, F. H. Jackson (surf life-saving)', and N. A. Ingram (secretary).

The swimming council recommended that an appeal should be made to the Government concerning a concession on the railways for juniors attending the Dominion swimming champion* Ships. It was asked that concessions granted previously and later withdrawn should be reinstituted.^ "The committee "expressed its appreciation of concessions granted by the Department. -

Advice was received that the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association was investigating the matter of more swimming baths in the Dominion, and that it would later submit a report, the object of, which would be to provide as many baths as possible at the lowest cost.

The following recommendation was received from the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association:— ......

"That this association Inform the National Committee of Swimming and Life-saving that an investigation of the reports on the inquests on 339 drowning cases in the period from January 1, 1536, to March 31, 1938, disclosed that in most cases the victim had been brought to the land and artificial respiration of some sort had been carried out, but that in only one case had warmth been applied.

"We recommend that the National Committee of Swimming and Lifesaving, in the course of its future activities, emphasises more fully the important necessity for applying warmth to the body of the apparently drowned." :

The committee adopted the recommendation and the secretary was instructed to give it the widest publicity possible. _^