SWIMMING

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 October 1925, Page 14

SWIMMING

The improvement in the weather brings swimming much closer to everyone interested in the great sport. The ranks of swimmers tiro increasing in number every year and the work in.the schools is putting out into the wider field of sport an ever increasing number of swimmers. Under these conditions the sport must go ahead fast. Hawera is verv lucky in having really good baths.' Its facilities for surf swimming are perhaps not of the best, but they arc quite good when taken on the proper tide. There arc possibilities of getting much more river swimming in the future. There are several good places in the rivers of the district.

Harrow School’s swimming pool, known as “The Ducker,” where Bvroa swam, is to be opened to.the public.

Miss Audrey Clemons, aged nineteen, won the annual endurance prize of the Surrey Ladies’ Swimming Club recently, for the second year in succession, by swimming from Surbiton to Putney, a distance of more than fourteen miles, in six and a half hours. She used the breast-stroke all the time.

The question of compulsory teaching of swimming in primary schools was discussed by the Auckland Primary Schools Committees’ Association recently. The subject was introduced in a letter from the Minister for Education, Sir James Parr, stating the Government was not prepared to make provision to transport children to and from swimming baths. The Education Board wrote stating its intention to renew its request to the Education Department regarding the teaching of swimming. It was unanimously resolved that! the board be thanked for continuing its efforts with the department. Mr C. Morris, Newton, moved that the matter of compulsory swimming be made, part of the school curriculum. An amendment 1 that the Governmnet be urged to provide facilities for the teaching of swimming was carried.