SWIMMING COACH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 12, 16 January 1939, Page 6

SWIMMING COACH

PROFESSOR D. B. ANDERSON'S VISIT INSTRUCTION CAMPAIGN WANGANUI CENTRE ACTIVE A further step in the Wanganui Swimming Centre's campaign to make people "swimming minded’’ will be taken this week, when Professor D. B. Anderson, noted swimming instructor from Auckland, will pay a visit to the Wanganui district. He will give lectures and demonstrations at Waverley, Wanganui, and Marton during his visit, which will extend over four days. Admission will be free at the respective baths when the lectures and demonstrations are being given, and it is felt that the general public will appreciate the opportunity to improve their swimming or to learn the basic principles of the art. Professor Anderson has been very successful in interesting the public fhroughout his Taranaki tour, which concluded at Hawera yesterday, and he was kept busy with lectures on swimming, but he found time to coach many of the leading swimmers at New Plymouth, Stratford and Hawera. It is to be hoped that Wanganui swimmers will take advantage of his visit to eradicate faults in style and gain valuable knowledge. In addition to outlining the general principles of floating and swimming, Mr. Anderson wIU coach instructors who will later apply this knowledge

in the course of teaching non-swim-mers during the "Learn-to-Swim” campaign next month. In this connection the Wanganui Centre is cooperating with the National Committee of Swimming and Life-saving, which has undertaken to set up an organisation capable of teaching 70,000 people to swim during the present season. This will be the second such week undertaken by the Wanganui Centre, which furthermore has employed an instructor to visit the various baths for the purpose of teaching people to swim. As this service is free of cost to learners it may be appreciated that the Wanganui Centre is using its best endeavours in the campaign, which already shows signs of being most successful. Professor,. Anderson will arrive at Waverley this morning and will be met by Mr. J. B. Cotterill, president of the Wanganui Centre. He will give demonstrations at Waverley this afternoon and again this evening, and will coach the several instructors who have offered their services at that centre. To-morrow afternoon he will be at the Aramoho baths, and in the evening he will give a demonstration at the* Gonville baths. Wednesday afternoon will be devoted to a further lecture and demonstration at the Wanganui East baths, and on Wednesday evening he will conclude his Wanganui visit at the Central baths, St. George's Gate. On Thursday, Mr. Anderson will be at Marton, where his demonstrations are timed for 4.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. Thence he will travel to Wellington, where he will cross to Blenheim by air for visits to Nelson and the West Coast. His visit should be highly beneficial to the cause of swimming, the importance of which has been stressed by 1084. ing authorities.