SWIMMERS CENSURED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 25 March 1922, Page 7

SWIMMERS CENSURED.

A PRINCIPLE AT STAKE.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 25. The action of three members of the New Brighton Surf Club in refusing to compete as members of the Canterbury representative team for the Nelson Shield life-saving contest at the New Zealand championships meeting at Wellington last month provoked a lively discussion at the meeting of the Canterbury Surf Association. The members concerned had been selected for the Canterbury team, but instead represented their club at the contest, and New Brighton won the shield. The three members, in correspondence, gave the reasons for their action. During the course of a long discussion it was emphasised that there was a principle at stake, and that in sport it was recognised that when a person was selected to represent a province he must do so unless he had sound reason for refusing. A resolution was adopted that the explanations offered were not considered satisfactory, and that they be censured for their action. An amendment proposing suspension was defeated.