SWIMMING

Grey River Argus, 3 December 1938, Page 9

SWIMMING

Educational Tour BY LADY CHAMPIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, December 2. What is described as the finest team of women swimmers ever assemble! in New Zealand, has been selected by the Council of the New Zealand amateur Swimming Association to ffiake an educational-tour of the Dominion in the forthcoming season. , The team is: Mrs E. C. Isaac (Dunedin), the former New Zealand diving champion (manager), Miss Mona Leydon (Auckland) freestyle champion and record holder and Empire Games swimmer. Miss Kathleen Grgy (Auckland) intermediate champion and record holder, Miss Winnie Dunn (Dunedin) breastroke champion and record holder and Empire' Games swimmer, and Miss Joyce MacDonald (Invercargill) backstroke champion and record holder and Empire Games swimmer. The team will start its tour as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, and it is proposed the tour 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 .th 6 tour is r td teach swimming to school children and it will form an important part of the campaign which is being undertaken this summer for the teaching of 7O,O0t) persons to