SWIMMING TUITION
COMPULSION ADVOCATED. . [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 7. A Departmental ruling giving teachers authority to insist on children taking swimming instructions, will be sought by the educational officers' of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. The annual conference of these officers carried a motion, this morning, that the Educational Department be asked to give 'a ruling on the authority of a teacher to insist on children, who had no reasonable excuse for not doing so, participating in swimming instruction. “We hope to reach the goal of saying that every child in New Zealand, physically able to do so, can swim, and I think it is not blind optimism to say that the goal is now within measurable distance,” said the president of the Association, Mr F. G. Dunn, when welcoming visitors at the annual conference of the Dominion Swimming Educational Officers, which opened this morning. “In the last three years, 90,000 children have gone through the 'educational officers’ hands and that is a record of which they are entitled to he very proud.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1940, Page 9
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