TOUR OF AUSTRALIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 8

TOUR OF AUSTRALIA

DUNEDIN WOMEN SWIMMERS INVITATION EXTENDED Advice has been received in Dunedin that the New South Wales Wonien’s Amateur Swimming Association is extending, through the Australian Amateur Swimming Union, an invitation to the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association for a team comprising Miss Betty Casey (swimmer) Mayzod Reid (diver) with Mrs E. C. Isaacs as manageress, to make a tour of New South Wales and Victoria in December and January. Miss Betty Casey is the New Zealand women’s 100yds, 220yds and 440yds freestyle champion, having won these three titles for three consecutive years. She took ’up an appointment on the staff of the George street School some months ago, and her transfer from the Wellington Amateur Swimming Club to the Kiwi Amateur Swimming Club was granted recently by the Otago Centre. Miss Casey had considerable success last season when she accompanied Miss Uvon Crittenden, the New South Wales women’s 110yds and 220yds freestyle champion, on her tour of the South Island, the meetings of these outstanding swimmers finishing with honours easy. Miss Reid is a member of the Dunedin Amateur Swimming Club and won. the New Zealand women’s diving championship in 1946 and 1947. Before that she had the distinction of winning New Zealand diving titles in the intermediate and junior classes. Miss Reid competed on several occasions last season against the former. Australian junior diving champion, Miss Noelene Maclean, during the latter's tour of the South Island, and here iagain honours were evenly divided. Mrs Isaacs, a former New Zealand women's diving champion, accompanied Miss Ngaire Lane on her tour of Australia last year as manageress. The party will leave Wellington by the Wahine on December IC, and appearances will be made in Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne, as well as in various country centres. The Otago Swimming Centre has granted permission for the swimmers to take part in the tour, and it now remains for the official invitation to be formally accepted by the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association.