NO TEAM FOR NAPIER

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1933, Page 9

NO TEAM FOR NAPIER

SWIMMING CENTRE’S DECISION. CHAMPIONSHIP CARNIVAL PROFIT. A suggestion to send a Taranaki team to the New Zealand senior swimming championships at. Napier was considered at last night’s meeting of the Taranaki Swimming Centre at New Plymouth. The proposal was rejected. There were present: Mr. F.J. Eggleton (chairman), Mrs. E. Govenlock, Messrs. C. H. Stephenson, G F. Bertrand, N. Berge, N. P. Lealand, R." Clayton and F. L. Trueman and Miss B. Gayton (secretary). It was reported that the total profit for the championship meeting and dance was £33 7s 6d. - . Formal applications were made for permission for R. Clarke to make an attempt on the Taranaki senior 100 yards breaststroke record at Hawera on Thursday night and for H. St. George to attack the 100 yards, free style, record -at the New Plymouth carnival on Saturday night. .. ; Preliminaries in connection with learn-to-swim week were discussed. The usual committee was elected, consisting of Messrs. W. ’H. Moyes, F. J. Eggleton, P. J. Flannagan, G. F. Bertrand and R. Clayton and Miss B. Gayton, to make arrangements ’ for the time-table. Messrs. Bertrand, Eggleton and Flannagan were appointed a sub-committee to visit the schools about Friday to. discover how many children would be forthcoming. Each club will be asked to obtain at least six instructors. A resolution commended Mr. H. Anthony for the rescue he carried out. at Paritutu beach on Sunday and promised full support to the move to have the rescue suitably recognised. The application of the Okato Club for the date of its carnival to be changed to March 4- in place of February 11 was granted and Inglewood was allotted February 23 for a second carnival. The suggestion to have Taranaki represented at the New Zealand swimming championships at Napier-was discussed. Mr. K. X Staunton: thought that as the centre was expecting to be allotted the national meeting in 1935 ■ and expense would preclude the sending of a team to the South Island next year, the time was ripe for a team to be-sent to Napier to show that the province was active. Mr. Staunton suggested that the centre could run another carnival to raise further funds and that the, personnel of the team be a polo seven,. H. St. George for the meh’s free style events and handicaps and Miss P. ..Murray for the ladies’ dive. ■ • - • ' ’ The question, was discussed by the meeting at length. It was admitted that a team should be sent, but it' was queried if the polo team, although improved, were yet good l enough. It was decided not to- incur the expense that would be necessary, but on Mr. Eggleton’s suggestion the, meeting decided to keep in view the sending of a team of intermediates and! j,uniors to the championships, to be held possibly at Auckland, next year. . This, Mr. Eggleton said, would be ' less .expense to the. centre and would give;experience to swimmers of the . province who were comparatively the best. Mr. Eggleton and delegates thought: that while it would have been appropriate to have Taranaki represented this > year, the carnival to. raise funds might injure the combined: dubs’ effort for the paying,of the baths improvement levy and. niight. undermine the credit balance the centre ;would require for the .national meeting in 1935., The’ recommendation to send an .inter-, mediate and junior team--to-Auckland’ in; 1934 was put in the form, of a motion! and carried. .. • .< ■ , . The suggested recession- of the charge for -certificates to -school - .children was left for consideration until after an Auckland remit on the same subject had been discussed at the annual meeting of the North Taranaki Association this month. * FITZROY SURF CLUB NIGHT. POLO AND SCRATCH RACES. The weekly' club night of the Fitzroy Surf Club was held at the New Plymouth' baths last night. No aggregate races were held, but the evening was devoted to polo practice and trials for Saturday’s Grey Cup relay championship. , . .A men’s team played a ladies team at polo, a scratch game drawing to a close with the ladies leading by 2 to 1. Club members were timed over 33 1-3 yards, with the following results: H. St. George 17 3-55., F?Trueman 18s., W. J. Toomey, H. X Thomas 18 l-10s., L. Charters 18 l-55., R. Clayton 18 3-10 s., B. Milne, C. Maclean 18 2-55., L. Riley 18 4-ss. The of the Grey Cup team was held over, H. St. George and F. L. Trueman being placed numbers one and two. Further trials would be held, it was decided, for the last two places.. . At a subsequent committee meeting Messrs. S. Alsop, L. Westwood, C. Maclean and R. Eva were appointed Fitzroy life-savers to accompany launches on Flannagan Cup day. The arrangement of the Moles-Mclsaac Cup as a competition between Fitzroy and East End junior teams on Flannagan Cup day, as suggested by the cup committee, was agreed to ’ by the ’ Fitzroy committee on condition that the secretary use his discretion in allowing only competent juniors to withdraw from the team in order to swim in the race. _