LADY SWIMMERS' TOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19549, 31 January 1927, Page 13

LADY SWIMMERS' TOUR.

REPLACING AUSTRALIANS. MISSES STOCKLEY AND MILLER. Advice that the proposed tour of New Zealand by two Australian lady champion swi nmers had been cancelled was receiied by the secretary of the New Zealand Swimming Association on Saturday. The association originally extended au invitation to Misses Claire Couldwell and Ettie Itobertson, and when it learned the former are not available, asked for Misses Robertson and Edna Davey. Miss "Davey is required to swim for New South Wales in the Australian championships to be held shortly, so the tour has been allowed to lapse. In negotiating for the visit tho association had in mind the popularising of swimming in the smaller centres, and in order not to disappoint the many applicants for carnival dates it has arranged a Dominion tour by Misses Ena Stockley, of Auckland, and Kathleen Miller, of Duuedin. These two swimmers will commence in Dunedin about February 12 and will tour northwards as far as Dargaville, where they should arrive at the end of ,March. " Miss Stockley is 100 yds. free-style and backstroke champion and record-holder of New Zealand and Australia, and Miss Miller won the 220 yds. and 440 yds. New Zealand ladies' championships last week in very fast time. Mrs. Miller has appointed cheiperorie.