LIFE-SAVING SOCIETY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145998, 3 December 1917, Page 2

LIFE-SAVING SOCIETY.

VISIT TO SCHOOLS. In pursuance of the intention of the Taranaki Head Centre of the Royal Life Saving Society to_ have _ a knowledge of swimming and life-saving methods introduced into all the Taranaki schools, Mr. J. Walker, on Friday, visited the schools in the Inglewood district. At each school the instructor first gave an address and then demonstrated the drill with flic aid of some of the pupils. The list of schools and the number of pupils would could swim out of those addressed is as follows: Waiongona, 5 out of 23; Inglewood, 56 nut of 113; Kaimata, 15 out of 78; Tariki, 7 out of 23; Midhiret, none out of 43; Durham Road, one out of 25; Norfolk Road, 10 .out of 38. The scarcity of suitable swimming places was tho .cause of there being so few swimmers at some of the schools. At Midhirst, where none of the children could swim, a suitable hole was found not far from tho school, and tho master will, before the holidays, commence giving the children lessons in swimming. At Norfolk Road there was a swimming pool near the school, and it had been the practice for all the hoys to be taught to swim before they left school.