LEARN TO SWIM
-♦ Compulsory Instruction Urged (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Miry 7. A departmental ruling giving teachers authority to insist on children taking swimming instruction will lie sought bv educational ollicers of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. The iannual conference of these ollicers carried a motion this morning Hurt the Education Department be asked to gne a ruling on Hie authority of a teacher to insist on children, who had no reasonable excuse for not doing so, participating in swimming instruction. “We hope Io reach the goal of saying that every child in New Zealand physically able to do so can swim, and I think it is not. blind optimism to WL' that the goal is now within measurabm distance,” said the president of the irssoeialion. Mr. F. G. Dunn, when welcoming Hie ollicers. “In Hie lust three rears '.Mi.OtfO cliildren have gone I hroiigh the educational ollicers’ hands, and that i.s a record of which they are entitled to be proud.”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 7
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163LEARN TO SWIM Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 7
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