SURF LIFE SAVING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21399, 25 January 1933, Page 16

SURF LIFE SAVING

PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP All member? of the Takapnna Surf Life Saving Cluli team, which will represent Takapnna at the provincial championships at Tauranga next Sunday,' have been examined and passed for their surf medallions, (he highest surf award issued by the Royal Life Saving Society. The rules of tho Spcedo Shield, which will be competed for, specify that all team members must be holders of the surf medallion, except first-year teams, llie members of which must be holders of the bronze medallion. .All teams have so far fulfilled the requirements, except Milford, which has not been fully examined for the test, which must be made when a surf is running. The judges appointed for the competition are Messrs. A. Dicker, A. Faulkner and G. W. Cameron. A confercni/e will follow the contest and matters pertaining to surf life saving will be discussed. The land drill portion of the contest will be contested in the morning and the water work in the afternoon. As the team representing the Wajtemala Swimming and Life Saving Club will be playing water polo in Hamilton on Saturday night the Auckland Head Centre has granted it permission to compete last in the land drill. The order for the water work is balloted for, except for the local team which is required lo take the water first.