SWIMMING.
A FOOLISH VENTURE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday. Strong comment was voiced at a meeting of the Otago Swimming Centre, by the president (Mr. Mclndoe) with' reference to the action of the two swimmers who endeavoured to swim from St. Glair beach to the caves on Sunday.
The two swimmers, G. Collett and J. Vallis, left St. Clair beach with the avowed intention of swimming to the eaves. That these swimmers were foolish went without saying, but what was more important was that they ventured out so far that had they got into serious difficulties which rendered aid necessary, the lives of the members-of the life-saving team (who were ready and willing to attempt the task of rescuing them) would also have been placed in more than ordinary danger. The lifesavers were carrying out work of great public benefit, and were ever on the look-out for bathers in trouble, but when people from bravado or desire *or notoriety deliberately risked their own lives and by their action, possibly the lives of life-savers, a protest should be made in no uncertain terms. Ho movod: “That the centre census the two swimmers.” The motion was carried.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 January 1929, Page 6
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