Swimming Club’s Instruction Work
That the Whakatane Swimming Club’s work in teaching non-swim-mers to handle themselves safely in the water, is appreciated is shown by this year’s large enrolments in the courses of swimming instruction that are .given at a nominal seasonal fee at the High School swimming bath. At present the Club has 170 pupils, nearly all children.
Most make steady progress from the non-swimming to the swimming stage, and the club now has enough keen swimmers to plan a carnival, which it hopes to hold at the Learn-to-Swim pool at Ohope next month.
Speaking to the Beacon yesterday, Mr R. S. Buttimore, an official of the Club, said he and his associates were seriously perturbed at the number of drowning fatalities that had occurred in this district, and claimed that learning to swim should be regarded as an essential part of everyone’s education. Parents who denied their children that opportunity might be paving the way for future tragedies.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 85, 13 January 1950, Page 5
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160Swimming Club’s Instruction Work Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 85, 13 January 1950, Page 5
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