SWIMMING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20290, 24 December 1927, Page 8

SWIMMING.

NEW ZEALAND LADY CHAMPIONS. VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. 'Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 23. Ena Stocklcy, the New Zealand 100yds lady swimming champion, has accepted an invitation from the Now South Wales Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Association again to visit Australia in February with Miss Kathleen Miller, of Dunedin. In 1920 Miss Stockley won the 100yds free style and back-stroke championship of Australia, establishing a new record for the latter distance. CHRISTCHURCH, December 23. At a meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Council, the Amateur Swimming Union of- Australia wrote inviting Miss Ena Stockley, of Auckland, to accompany Miss Kathleen Miller, of Dunedin on a visit to Australia to compete in the New South Wales championships. An appeal was received from the Ponsonby Club against the decision of the Auckland Centre in adopting a rule that fixed amounts must be paid by club members by way of club subscriptions. The club claimed that the rule was ultra vires. It was decided that the appeal he upheld.

The white flag under which the representatives of the town of Slrasoourg surrendered to the German Army in 1870 has been formally restored to Jie town. All the patriotic societies of riuasbour b , including the veterans of 1870, paraded in the Place Kleber, and'the flag, a tattered white napkin fastened to a calairy lance, was then carried in procession to the military museum.