LIFE-SAVING TROPHY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 2

LIFE-SAVING TROPHY

COLLEGE STREET SCHOOL' WINS. 14 TEAMS COMPETE. The College Street School B tenrn, last night, won the life-saving competition for the Weston J. Smith Pose Bowl, the display being conducted by the Manawatu branch of the New Zealand Life-saving Society. Fourteen teams participated, the event being held in the Municipal Baths. It is three years since the last competition was held, Palmerston North Boys’ High School winning the trophy in 1936. In the following year the infantile paralysis epidemic caused the abandonment of the competition, and last year the measles epidemic likewise.

College Street School’s win was a popular victory, and the team’s performance was a compliment to the instructor, Mr L. C. Rickard. Points were awarded for resuscitation and promotion of warmth ; methods of rescue and speed. Points were secured as follow, the order being: Resuscitation, rescue and sneed, total: —College Street B, 20—225—425; Girls’ High School B, 201—211—42; Girls’ High School C, 21f—191—41*; Technical B, 191 —21J —41; Technical A, 231 —15§ —• 39'; Central B, 22—161—381; Fcilding High School A, 161—201—371; Girls’ High School A, 21A —13 5-6 —351; Feilding B, 215—125—34-1; College Street C, 221 —12—341 ; College Street A, 211—121—331; Boys’ High School A, 251 —65 —32. Boys’ High School B did not finish.

The judges were Messrs K. B. Dawkins, E. G. Schwarz and A. M. Stevenson; timekeepers, Messrs E. J. Worry, IC. M. White, N. A. Giddings; secretary, Mr T. Twigge.