SWIMMING

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1943, Page 3

SWIMMING

WEST COAST CENTRE p Mr. F. W. Baillie presided at a 1 meeting of the West Coast Swimming 1 Centre this week. - ! Amounts amounting to £9/8/- < were passed for payment, 1 .a. motion of thanks was passed to < the Primary Schools’ Sports’ Associa- i tion for a (donation of £3/3/-. * It was decided to congratulate the ( former’ President of the Centre (Mr. i IL Rattray) on his son’s being com- 1 missioned as a Second Lieutenant. ( ii was resolved that the report of the New Zealand Council’s diving ( si.ib-cotmnittee be circularised among <

all diving judges. The report deals ' with the interpretation of certain div- ■ ing rules. It was decided to ask the Hokitika, Reefton and Westport schools for the numbers of children attending the respective schools who gained distance swimming certificates in the past season. It was also decided to circularise all schools in the district mentioning the swimming and lifesaving certificates which are available. and the procedure to be adopted in securing them, and also inviting headmasters to make full use of the Centre in all swimming matters. Arising out of a report by the Centre’s’delegate to the West Coast Council of Sport it was decided that

The Secretary secure information from iall possible sources regarding the posi'sibility of roofing the municipal baths, |or of combining them with, or using i them for, a gymnasium. The Secretary reported that the Huntly Borough Council subsidised £ for £ all money collected from the public for