SWIMMING INSTRUCTION
Sir,— Congratulations to Mr Mahy for setting the ball rolling to get a pool at Ohope where children can be taught to swim! This is 1940. Perhaps Ohope will have its swimming pool this year, next year or sometime. Bub what about Whakatane, which seems from a pcrusa*. of the Beacon to be a suburb of the city of Ohope? I read that the Whakatane High School pupils held a swimming sports, the course being between the old wharf and a punt. That is this progressive borough of Whaltatane's version of a swimming pool where swimming sports may be held. Is it not time Whakatane had municipal swimming baths as well as its already extensive mudflats and ocean beach? I iiote that a young WJiakatane man / went to Wellington to swim threej. miles in the harbour. It would be well to think that many more residents were so proficient at swimming. It is all very well to have an ocean beach miles long, but if we are to make sure that every child can swim, also that the leading New Zealand swimmers can appear before Whakatane people we Avant some sort of swimming pool in the borough.
Yours etc., "IN THE SWIM."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 134, 11 March 1940, Page 4
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