TEACHING OF SWIMMING
SCHOOLS LACK FACILITIES SERIOUS POSITION DISCLOSED [bt TELEGRAPH-—OWN correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday A serious lack of facilities in some education districts for the teaching of swimming in schools is indicated by a summary supplied by education boards for discussion by the Dominion Federaton of School Committees' Associations, which is holding its annual conference in Christchurch. The figures for some districts show large numbers of schools without any swimming facilities and a large proportion of the children still unable to swim. Only two districts, Auckland and Hawke's Bay, supply figures for numbers of children learning to swim or unable to swim. In Hawke's Bay 11,302 children are stated to be unable to out of a roll number of 15,552 a t the end of last year.. 'n Auckland 12,984 children learned '0 swim last season; and in the standard classes and above there are 13.678 pnable to swim: The estimated cost of "Ktruction in the last season, for nil gvuWit was undertaken, was fhe conference reaffirmed that swim- . 'ng should bo made a compulsory stibtl; u a " Physically fit children, and i - the Government's attention should e drawn to the inadequate and danUs facilities ill use.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23150, 23 September 1938, Page 17
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197TEACHING OF SWIMMING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23150, 23 September 1938, Page 17
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