COMPULSORY SWIMMING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1510, 5 August 1912, Page 6

COMPULSORY SWIMMING.

Compulsory swimming: is one of the sub* jpcts which Mr. G. S. Hill advocates in cortaiu ingestions he has, as chairman of the Wollinnton Centre of thcKoyal I/ife-Savintf Society, made to tlio Education Commission in writing t-ince.it ceased to take evidence in public. Mr. Hill makes -six sugjfstionf, as follow:— ' 1. Tho creel ion of swimming-baths in school grounds. 2. That swimming and life-saving be a compulsory subject in State schools beyond a fixed njje, provision being made tor exemption certificates in necessary coses. . . • ■• 3. That regulations bo framed that students attending training■- colleges would have to acquire the knowledge of swiiuuring and life-saving and pass an examination therefor, in order to impart such knowledge to those pupils who ultimately come under tlwir instruction. 4. That charts of the lioyal Lifo Saving Sociely, depicting. t)is .method* of vejene and rcsusatntiniii h'lus up pernmneutiy in all schools. ■■■;'-■:.: '■' 3. That certain information coutsined in the. Handbook of Instruction of dm Vny.a) Life -Saving Society bo printed and circiilatwl to all present and fntun l scholars b:\vond a fixed shmiiard. , 6.-That there he, a lfmoralof ilniy nil Hoyal Life..Saving Sncio.ly literature aiui other properry;of the sbcioty coming into the.Dominion, a< the tociely.is fouuded for,'.humane pnrposps In puniwrt of the foroifoinp Jlr. .li.ilf .slates: "The number .of livos ri'gijtovcd a-s'lost iiv tho'Dominion for the ]ia~t (en years throunh drownms ii 17.17. I'or ihe iivft years onded iflOli there vevo SC3 livo?. and for the five yeors .Milled Iflll there'were S7-1 live* thus.lost. ]ii many c«>-es lives wero IoU in sighl of people \iii.\ble to swim ami render nsHst-{uir.-P: and in o'thfiv c,!<es liv« hnvc bei'ti sa>-rifued >viw:rc Uiepatier.v iias bwurostued, but ilin re-.cm'V* w°re "anable to render any uid (hvo\igh no knowledge of tlir i-il'iplo nicthnils r-T rfsuscit.li(inn ns laiil down in Urn Handbook of tlip'Eoynl Lifn S:ivinE Society. The juuur codets and Territorials <linul'l all \)n M« to swim, and th<> liiiowlcdjo cf life-saving and vwufcitatiun."