SWIMMING IN SCHOOLS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 30 July 1930, Page 8

SWIMMING IN SCHOOLS

PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES JIAWER A LEADS TARANAKI. Tlie benefits oi swimming as a healthy recreation and the most beneficial of all forms of exercise as an aid to perfect physical development were urged by representatives of the Taranaki centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association who visited -a number of -schools of the province-• yesterday for the purpose ol presenting the association swimming certificates won .by pupils in the 1929-30 season. Messrs W. H. Aloyes (president of the Taranaki centre of tiie association), Al. D. Clarke (secretary of the centre), J. E. Shnnmin (educational officer of the association), and H. W. In.sull (secretary of the Taranaki Education Board) comprised the party. Included in the itinerary were the Hawera. Alain, Tawhiti, Turuturu and Hawera Convent schools.

Congratulations to the pupils who had qualified for the certificates and to the teachers were voiced at each school by Mr. Moves, who, as president of the centre, made the presentations. Physical training was regarded as a necessary part of school work in order that pupils should be able to reap the maximum of benefit from their studies and be fitted for their subsequent duties of citizenship, said Mr. Moyes. Swimming was the ideal medium of reaching physical perfection. He also stressed that the ability to swim often proved the means of saving life. His remarks and appeal to all boys and girls to take advantage of opportunities offered to become proficient in swimming wets endorsed by Mr. Shim--111 in.

It was 1 explained that during the coming summer a “Learn to Swim Week” was to be inaugurated and the hops was expressed that it would be attended with the best possible results in the schools of the province. The Hawera Main School, with 78 certificates, was commended as having established the Taranaki record for the season, the school being next with. Go. Eileen Kelson, a. girl pupil of the Tawhiti. school, who swam 2810 yards, established the longest distance for Taranaki primary schools. The New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association certificates a,r. j awarded in three divisions. School pupils who, under the supervision of teachers, swim 50 yards are awaitled the Learners’ Certificate-; those who swim 220 yards receive, the Certificate of Proficiency, and those who swim 880 yards receive the Certificate' of Merit. No special award is made by the association for distances exceeding 880 yards, though in many casesj school pupils swim considerably greater distances.

These were presented as follow in tlie schools referred to.

HAWERA, MAIN SCHOOL. Learners’ Certificate (uO) yards. 'Girls.—Edna Carmichael. Joyce Knightbridge. Kuth Buckeridgo, June .foil. Molly Brough, Myra Nowell. Noeliin. Death, Edith Tyrell, Rosaline Hart, Edna Wheeler, Dene Hall, Liriette Corderv Then Young, Doris McGhie. Boys. Douglas Kemp. lan Taylor. Ada-in Badcoek, David Sage. Cedric Whittington, Sydney Richards, Sel.vyn Lord. A lister Buist, Geoffrey Horner. Reg. Howells, Norman Vclvin. Certificates of Proficiency (220yds). Girls.—Patty McGlashan, Nonna Nixon Ellen Er.esEdge, Barbara, Thomson, Maisie Madgwick, Phyhiis Reading, Winnie, Wheeler, Mel lie Brough, Ailsa •Oprdoty, Doris McGliic. Alison Duffill. Jessie Beamish, Beryl Grindrotl, Mangaiiot Murdoch. Dorothy Chadwick. Doris Thomas. June Jo'll. Roys. — Edward (fane. Richard Wal'lb, Edward Bach, Cliff Parkinson, George Wallis, Bon Oliver, Norman Carter, Leslie Shaw, Richard Gray, Erie Byford, William Wright. Jan Taylor., Jack Crompton. Ray Pcteiscn, Victor Nicholas.

Certificates of Merit (SSOyds). Girls. —Ali.so.ll DuffiVl. Zita Sinclair, Joy Lind mm. Esther Blair, Anne Bright, Jessie Beamish, Doris, Gilmore, Her mine Evans, Betty Smith. Doris Thomas, Eileen Johnston. Bovs. Gerald Rawson, Ivan Lord, Arthur Evans-, Colin Nicholas, Ray P'eteesen. Ray Nixon, Arnold Hunter, Edward Game, Richard Wallis, Wilson Evans. HAiWERA CONVENT SCHOOL. Leafnersi Certificates. Dorothy Brown, Dorothy Gray, Maisie Brown, Patricia. Fake, Margaret Harrington, Eileen O’Connor, Chanel McCahnan, Victor Pi vac (each 50yds), Nancy Thurston., Ursula Douglas, Alice McAneny, Clarence Coleman (each TOO yds). Certificates of Proficiency.—Nancy Turnbull (300yds), Robert Seaver (300 ; yds) , Margaret Doyle (450yds), Nancy | King (550yds). Carl Kropp (650yds). jean Murray (800yds). Certificates of Merit.—S'biehi. Douglas (900yds), Shield O’Brien (1060yds), Frank Flvvm (1600yds), Roiia. Cann (2600yds),“Shiela. Seaver (2800yds). TAWHITI SCHOOL. Learners’ Certificates. —Edna Pepperell, Q. Ivinglnvm, Palmer Burns, Alfred Pearce (each 50yds), Thelma Whitehead, ItUsie Smith, (eacli 75yds), - Coieen Shannon, Jean McLeod, Nelson Walker (each 100yds). Cfertifiea.tes of Proficiency.— Jack Laurenson (220yds), Jocelyn Pearce. Valina 1 . Small; (each 350yds), Phyllis Brett (500yds). Certificates of Merit. —Margaret Pearce (900yds), Eileen Kelsen (2850 yds). TUR FT UR U SCHOOL. Learners’ Certificates. —James Bryant (50yds). Joyce Mclntyre, Whoki McCallum. Mervyn Jones (each 75yds). Phyllis Warren, Doris Warren (each lOOv.ls). Certificates- of Proficiency.—George Evans (225yds), Eli it- Meharry (350vds). Rita Warren (500yds).