SWIMMING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 4

SWIMMING

"LEaRN TO SWIM” - NATIONAL EFFORT TOO MUCH 4 INSTRUCTORS OVERWORKED I The opinion that, though successful, ; last year’s “Learn to Swim’’ cam- _ paign had imposed far too great a . strain on the voluntary instructors v was expressed by delegates at the recent annual meeting of the National 3 Committee of Swimming and Life- - saving. It. is likely that in the near future local campaigns will take the y place ol the national effort. Mr. B. O’Neill, secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, said that th? swimming as- ” sociation was against the continuance of such a national campaign in the L near future. There was no doubt that ■’ the instructors had been overworked. Though tlv swimming centres were ’ prepared to continue their usual ac- " tivities of local “Learn to Swim" 'j efforts, they were not prepared to undertake again, for the time being at least, such a task as had been undertaken last season. On behalf of his association, he pa;.! a tribute to the great work done by tlv secretary (Mr. N. A. Ingram./, an-; the treasurer (Mr. F. IT. Jackson). They certainly had had a great task to perform, but they had done it. well. It was too much even to consider asking : h'm or the committee to undertake such a stupendous task again, for a long period at least. V Magnitude of Task. Mr. F. G. Dunn, president of the '■ swimming /..-.Nociation, ami other mem- ’• bers indicated that all sections, of the three c< r.i? - 1 -?nt I ‘-r lies cf the national ■ committee realism! the magnitude of l the ta:?k they had promised to under- ' take on oehalf of the Government, • and they non. r o!t it too severe a -• strain on the members to bp conducted F again on the tame scale. Tn moving the motion "That thi.s • meeting recommends that, in the event of a request being received from '• the Government for the conducting of ‘ such an effort as the recent national ■' ‘Learn to Swim’ campaign, such a re- ' quest should be referred to the member body concerned," Mr. Dunn concurred fully with Mr. O'Neills views. Mr. G. C. Griffiths (Royal Lifee saving Society) stated that he apprea ciated the great task that, had been . undertaken in the conduct of such a . campaign, and that no doubt many of r the instructors had been overworked. - The swimming association’could rest assured of the fullest co-operation of d his society in any local effort made. < The motion was then caried unanie mously. s A motion b} - Mr. F. H. Jackson that it should be the duty of each component body to notify the National Committee of all fixtures and matters of common interest to its represented bodies was also carried unanimously.