SWIMMING
New Zealand Life Saving Society
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 23. The New Zealand Life Saving Society elected the following officers: President, Mr G. D. Griffiths; vice-presi-dent, Mr C. F. Barnett; secretary, Mr J. Breward; treasurer and award secretary, Mr F. G. Glackin; delegate to New Zealand Surf Life Saving Association, Mr A. Laurie; delegates to the National Committee of Swimming and Lifesaving, Messrs J. O. Haworth and N. A. Ingram.
The council discussed whether the McCabe method of group swimming instruction was the best, some exception being taken to a resolution forwarded by the National Committee of Swimming and Life Saving stating that, it was of opinion' that it was the quickest and most effective method of teaching group swimming and unanimously recommending the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association to consider the advisability of adopting the method as a standardized national basis. If there were a better method, said Mi- Haworth, the national committee would be pleased to consider it, but at the moment it considered the McCabe method the best.
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Southland Times, Issue 25502, 24 October 1944, Page 7
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