CRIPPLED CHILDREN
SWIMMING A CORRECTIVE. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY. In outlining the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Council’s plans to aid the recovery of crippled children by teaching them to swim, Mr. F. G. Dunn, president of the council, stated, in an address on policy matters recently that swiming to the sufferer from Infantile paralysis was a corrective; It was not, as some seemed to think, a cure. It was the council’s intention to co-operate with the Education Department, said Mr. Dunn. The council had been concentrating on the pupils of standard 4 and by the end of the year it was hoped they would all be able to swim. In two years every child leaving the primary schools would be a sv. immer. The whole of the Government grant of £560 would be expended on furthering swimming instruction in schools. After quoting what clubs in Dunedin were doing in interesting paralysed patients in swimming by enrolling them as members and treating them as they did other children. Mr. Dunn said it was the duty of centres to do their best for paralysed children. ‘’Help them with infinite patience; it is work well worth' doing, and a definite part e' »» said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 89, 16 April 1938, Page 4
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198CRIPPLED CHILDREN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 89, 16 April 1938, Page 4
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