DEATHS FROM DROWNING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 22, 10 February 1937, Page 4

DEATHS FROM DROWNING

Need of Steps to Prevent Them IMPORTANCE OF LIFE-SAVING "I take this opportunity of paying a tribut© to the Minister of Transpoit on the -steps he has taken to reduce the danger to life and limb on the roads, and I would respectively suggest to the authorities the need for realisiug the equal importance of reducing the number of deaths through drowning on our shores and coasts," said the Mayor, Mr G. A. Maddison, in th© course of his welcome to the Australian surf life-saving team in Hastings last evening. Mr Maddison said it was to be hoped that this visit, the first ever to have been paid New Zealand by an Austra lian surf team, would stimulate the authorities and encourage them to realise the need for niaking a determined effort to reduce to a minimum the daugers encountered on the shores. He hoped that the authorities would take steps to impress upon the Government the need for national action in this direction. "We maintain in Australia'that lifesaving is one of the finest humanitarian movements in the world," said Mr J. Cameron, manager of the Australian team, in reply. "We want to teach you people in New Zealand as much as we can, and we ar© indeed proud of being members of the first Australian lifesaving team to visit you."