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OTAGO’S LOSS

SURF CHAMPION TRANSFERRED CLIVE ELLIOTT FOR WELLINGTON . [By Hookeh.] Otago swimming and surf life-saving circles will suffer a big loss by the transfer to Wellington next week of Clive Elliott, who expects to bo called up for service with the Air Force later iu the year. Originally a member of the Dunedin Amateur Swimming Club, Clive Elliott made a name for himself as a, diver when he was hi'the intermediate class, and at the first New Zealand intermediate and junior championship meeting in Ashburton he carried off several of. the interolub dives that were held ;n conjunction with the meeting. When ho entered senior ranks ho did not carry on witH this branch of activity, but concentrated largely on breast stroke swimming, in which in 1933 he had already represented Otago iu the New Zealand intermediate 100yds championship, in which he was ninner-up to his team mate, Reg. Geddes. Twice, he won the Otago 220yds men’s breast stroke title, and he tepresented the Dunedin Cluh and later tho St. Clair Surf Life Saving Club at water polo. As a surf life saver he was one of the best iu the country, and in 1938 was the beltman in the St. Clair Club’s team which won the Nelson Shield contest, symbolic of the surf life-saving championship of tho Dominion. Elliott was very unlucky that year not to gain selection in the New Zealand team which visited Australia. On two occasions ho has won the Otago boltmen’s championship. He lias been a member of the Otago Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association for two or three years. Clive Elliott, who has held office as club captain of the St. Clair Club, has been one of those who have put back into swimming some of the benefits he has derived from it, and his departure for Wellington will be regretted by a host of friends, who will wish him well in his new sphere of activity.

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Evening Star, Issue 23696, 2 October 1940, Page 9

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OTAGO’S LOSS Evening Star, Issue 23696, 2 October 1940, Page 9

OTAGO’S LOSS Evening Star, Issue 23696, 2 October 1940, Page 9

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