SWIMMING

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 October 1920, Page 8

SWIMMING

Br Teleernrh-Proim Annotation,

Chri9tohuroh, October 2. At a meeting of tho New Zoaland Swimmlnir Association. cablc messages from tJjo Australian Association were read, asking If a, New Zealand tour could bo arranged for Kahanamoku and Kealoha and Lunger (the Americana). Tho secretary reported that ho had received amplo guarantee.", to cover the cipensos, but lm(I notllteil tlio Australian Association that the proposal to visit New Zealand In March was not acceptable, and suffKcstlnir that one Island should be visited In December ana the other In March. No reply had yot beon received. A sub-committee was appointed, with power to act, to deal with further communications from tho Australian Association. It wnj decided that the minimum period for th(» tour of the Dominion must be one month. In connection with the Auckland Centre s application for recognition of Miss Waldron's 100 yards record at Wellington, it was decided that as the rule* provided that claims to records must bo ataxic within threV months, and as the Wellington Contro had not forwarded tho claim, the application could not be entertained, being out of order. It was also decided to a r .l( the Wellington Centre to hold an inquiry and ascertain who was resnonslblo for tho omission; and also to furnish the Auckland Centre with an explanation. The Manawatu Centre reported that tho ■Wellington Centre had not yet settled with Manawatu reptrdine .the paying over of the balance of the fund in connection with Miss Waldron's tour of the North Island. It? was decided that the Wellington Centre should he given seven day 6 to carry out the council s previous instructions.