SWIMMING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 April 1922, Page 2

SWIMMING.

A great perforns*jja£s was put ua^rer, eently by Rex Longrlanes, of G^long Grammar School,. wheja he gained; seven firsts out of eighty starts at the school swimming sporty. The details 59 yards champicsi^ap (under 15 years), if "^ yards handicap, 1; 50? yards championship^ (under 16 years}* 1; 100 yards championship (under T§>- years), 1; 150 yards, championship (under id yeaa-s), 1; SO;; yards open back stroke, 1; 50 yards.; open champicmship. %{. open diving, 1. As four ofi the indif! vidual events were consecutive, the^ boy's performance is all? the, saqre meritorious* The d&nger- of surf baching wh<s& : bhe. tide is. running out was once more. shown : ai> Paekakariki the othec- day, wheni a. visitor was swept away- andl droi^nedi. All bathers? in coasisai" waters are- wise to be careful; to s&* that tlie tS3fe i.e. 33ght when going in, to> bathe.