SWIMMING CONTROL
CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES TEACHING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. Per Press Association. NAPIER, January 27. The annual conference of delegates from the various swimming centres of New Zealand was held here this afternoon. Mr W. E. D. Bishop, president, referred in his opening remarks to the improvement taking place in swimming in the Dominion, as indicated by the fresh''records established. It was resolved that the council he requested to arrange a visit from an overseas swimmer or swimmers. A remit was carried that, where facilities exist, swimming and life-saving be compulsory in primary and secondary schools, and that the Government be asked to include swimming and life-saving as special subjects in the teachers’ training syllaus. Next year’s championships are to be held at Auckland. A suggestion that they should be divided between two centres was thrown out.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12356, 28 January 1926, Page 4
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