A PRESSING NEED.
~ XNsMuCTION IN SWIMMING AS A jkv * SCHOOL SUBJECT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday.
Mr Boyd Garlick, Director of Physical Education, conferred with representatives of the NeAv Zealand Amateur SAvimming Association and Life-Saving Society. The chairman brought under Mr Garlick's notice the lack of instruction in the schools regarding life-sav-ing and SAvimming. Delegates urged that swimming and life-saving lessons be made compulsory at all schools, and that steps be taken to train teachers.
Mr Garlick said he believed life-sav-ing and swimming lessons should be compulsory at all schools where swimming could be taught under the capitation system. It Avas impossible to undertake training in teachers' camps as they now existed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14205, 6 February 1915, Page 5
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112A PRESSING NEED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14205, 6 February 1915, Page 5
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