SWIMMING.
Elsewhere will be observed a pretty group of lady members of the Napier Swimming Club, each of them being a credit to her painstaking honorary instructors, Messrs A. E. Eagleton (hon. sec. of the Club), and J. Hamilton (captain). The past season was one of continued success for the Club, the three sports meetings held at Swan’s Baths proving most attractive. At the beginning of the season the Committee decided to start a learners’ class for ladies, and 41 members were enrolled. So well did the instructors fulfil their duties that before the end of March last 39 of the ladies could swim well. The Club deserves the highest commendation for their efforts in the direction of teaching ladies the art, and the ladies themselves are to be congratulated both on their success in learning and on their evident contempt for the idiotic conventionalities that prohibit ladies from joining with men in this most delightful exercise.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XXI, 22 May 1897, Page 641
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157SWIMMING. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XXI, 22 May 1897, Page 641
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