SWIMMING CONTROL

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1935, Page 7

SWIMMING CONTROL

NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIPS. OTAGO CENTRE FOR NEXT YEAR. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Overseas tours, educational work .in swimming and the control of diving were among the subjects discussed today by the annual conference of delegates of centres affiliated to the. New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. Remits adopted will be submitted to the New Zealand Council as. recommendations. The chairman of the Auckland centre,' Mr. R. M. Sheffield, was elected chairman of the conference.

Speaking to a remit from the Auckland centre that the overseas representation fund should be reinstated, Mr. Sheffield referred to the difficulty experienced in raising money by . subscription to send champions to international meetings. Mr. C. Atkinson said Hawke’s Bay would support Auckland if its remit were recast to make provision for tours by overseas champions. This change was agreed to by the Auckland delegates and the remit was adopted. The need of the New Zealand Swimming Association, the Royal Life-saying Society and the New Zealand Surf Lifesaving Association for financial assistance was emphasised by Mr. L. Kenny, Auckland, in introducing a remit that these bodies should apply for an art union, the profits to be divided among them equally and redistributed equally by each parent body to affiliated centres and associations.

It was decided to recommend the inclusion of the New Zealand diving championships for junior boys and girls and intermediate girls. The conference unanimously passed a Wellington remit that the Government should be asked to make swimming compulsory in schools where facilities were available, and that the teaching of swimming be placed on the syllabus as a compulsory subject in the teachers’ course of training. Mr. B. C. Sporle, Manawatu, advocated a “swimming week” through the Dominion. It was also decided that the Government be asked to make provision for swimming baths when building new schools. It was agreed that the New Zealand diving championships be decided only in a bath or pool and where standard equipment was in use. The New Zealand Council will be asked for an opinion whether it should continue to recognise the record for the long plunge. Recognition was considered useless.

The Otago centre is to be recommended for the New Zealand senior championship meeting of 1936, and the South Auckland centre for the intermediate and junior championships. The conference expressed approval of the movement to hold championships for Maoris.

It was decided to recommend an examination for diving judges for the purpose of obtaining a uniform standard among them.