WOMEN SWIMMERS
EDUCATIONAL TOUR OF DOMINION STRONG TEAM SELECTED [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 2. , What is described as the finest team pf women swimmers ever assembled in i New Zealand, has been selected by the j Council of the Neyv Zealand Amateur Swimming Association to make an edu- ] oational tour of the Dominion in the 1 forthcoming season. The team is Mrs E. C. Isaacs (Dunedin), former New Zealand diving champion, manager; Miss Mona Leydon (Auckland), free style champion and record holder and Empire Games swimmer; Miss Kathleen ' Grey (Auckland), intermediate champion and record holder; Miss Winnie j Dunn (Dunedin), breast stroke chain- • pion and record holder and Empire , Games swimmer; Miss Joyce Macdonald (Invercargill), back stroke champion and record holder and Empire Games swimmer. The team will start its tour ns soon os the necessary arrangements can bo made, and it will continue throughout the entire swimming season, terminating probably about the end of March. All parts of New Zealand will be visited. The principal purpose of the tour is to teach swimming to school children, and this will form an important part of the campaign which is being undertaken tips summer for the teaching of 70,000 persons ta swim..
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Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 13
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