COMPULSORY SWIMMING
A STRONG APPEAL. "Medical inspectors of schools admit," says tho annual report of the Wellington Centre of tho Royal LifeSaving Society, "that among those school children who are swimmers, there is pronouncedly less physical deformity and mental weakness than among those who cannot swim, and the time lias undoubtedly arrived when the Government should be impressed with the urgent, necessity of making, provision for swimming and life-saving instruction at all schools where facilities exist. Tlie country is asked to make tho supreme sacrifice of thousands of its healthiest manhood, and it is the solemn duty of the State to ensure a continuance of tho stamina of its future generations. In the face of the medical testimony just quoted it seems incredible that the educational authorities of this Dominion do not) insist upon r.he compulsory education of the children in the valuable arts we lead. As a. means to this end the subjects should be given prominence in the training of teachers in the same way as is the case at the Teachers'_ Training College in Victoria, Australia."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3032, 20 March 1917, Page 3
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179COMPULSORY SWIMMING Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3032, 20 March 1917, Page 3
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