SWIMMING

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 December 1925, Page 3

SWIMMING

The weather of late has been muen more conducive to interest in swimming, and (though it is not yet quite hot summer, conditions have been- so much improved that the carnival held in the baths last week was very popular and much enjoyed by all present. Such events do a lot towards fosteiing the sport and bringing on young swimmers. But the club do not make much out of them, and so are not able to build up a fund for future development. The first carnival was quite a success, and for this cordial acknowledgment must be made to the help of the outside swimmers. Wanganui sent up a strong contingent and sportingly promised the heartiest assistance and cooperation at any time when at all possible. The kindly spirit shown in this offer is much appreciated and shows a fine fraternal feeling as between clubs that apparently needs only the call to k°Tlie New Zealand Championships will commence at Napier on January 23. It must surely be a record for a swimmer to win at one meeting five such events as 100 yards, 220 yards, 440 yards, 880 yards, and 150 yards breaststroke championships. That was the performance of C. J. .McLean, in the Otago championship meeting. ‘‘Many a person lias died after having been rescued from water and brought ashore,” announced the president of the Otago Swimming Centre (Mr. H. Henderson) at the opening of the Y.M.C.A. Swimming Club at Dunedin, when addressing the .members of the club on the value of life-savmg. He said that the simple art of lifesaving had as its principle the three R’s—i el ease, rescue and resuscitation.

A SWIMMING CLUB. ITS OBJECTS. At the opening of the Thorndon Club in Wellington recently; the president sketched the work of the club, showing a very useful programme. He said that the object of the club was to cater for the welfare of both sexes. They wanted the boys and girls of the district to look upon tne club as something started for their benefit, and the idea was. to teach the young folk by example and precept the proper way to utilise their strengthen, the water, and to become proficient in one of the most useful of all sports. Instruction would be given free by members of the club, and their greatest thanks would be to see a very large attendance of those who desired instruction in swimming and diving. In the near future 't was hoped that they would be able to have a clubhouse built in the locality, and so widen their sphere of influence.