LIFE-SAVING TESTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12074, 27 February 1925, Page 10

LIFE-SAVING TESTS

JUDGES’ DECISION CRITICISED.

UNUSUAL ALLEGATIONS. (By Telegraph.—" Times" Special.! CHRISTCHURCH. February 26. No small amount of adverse comment feae been caused amongst Wellington swimmers, as well as life-savers, over remarks which have appeared in one of the local newspapers regarding the judging of results for the Nelson Shield. One feport stated that "The decision was arnye<i at by th*v*hree judges in something’'of the. nattfge of the spirit of compromise. and, Jlw many compromises, *2® ultimate dechaon did not please any of the parties Two of the judges (it says) placed&prighton first in their awards, but gave Lyall Bay first, and the. time allowance gave the Wellington men' first position." .As twj of the judges were from Canterbury and one'from Wellington tho remnrt places.them in a peculiar light, and the disclosure of such confidential information as individual judges’ placmgs is not usually resorted to. General satisfaction is expressed at Lyali Bay’s •win , as the only possible one, and as snob, information could only come as a rule from either the judges or the marshall of the day, and as disappointment has been expressed at Brighton's loss by local surfers, the result gives an unpleasant complexion to Lyali Bay’s fine Wo J k - The judges were C. Atkinson end B. 8. Knox (Canterbury), and W H. Gerrie (Wellington).