OPEN DRAINS
RISK OF DROWNING A distressing feature of the Dominion's drowning fatalities over recent years has been the number of young children who have lost their lives through falling into ope:; sumps and drains. Recently yet another two young children have been lost in this manner. At a time when the 'Government, has gi/ven (£IOOO. for this year's educational work, to the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, it is desired thai parents take note of tins risk and where such open drains are located in their neighbourhood, warn their children of the danger with the same insistence that they would use in warning them to keep out of the way of traffic. This year the Lcarn-to-Swim work will be handled mainly through the schools. In areas where instructors of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Branch are opera! Msg. it is intended that they .'hall co-operate with the swimming and educational authorities in this work.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 112, 19 January 1940, Page 3
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155OPEN DRAINS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 112, 19 January 1940, Page 3
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