SWIMMING.
The Hokitika Amateur Swimming Club desire to thank Mr JL Wylie for donating a new spring board lor the use „f the baths and al.-o For one guinea donation towards the prize fund .-which has been alloltcd for a girls’ race at the Carnival on Alonday night. The thanks of tbo Swimming Club are due to a kind person and swimming enthusiast for his donation of Cl, contditionallly that il bo a prize for’ a fully clothed race for boys. Fully e|i,tbed means that the entrants must !if, fullv dtossed in their street clothes old clothes of course are allowed. In February 1017. Masters Harold Lawn. Eric Hacked and Max Valentine established a record swim at the local swimming baths. 'I hey swam 165 lengths—:looo yards, which means a continuous swim of over 2', miles. Next week Alts- Alva Alclntosh and Aliss Lucy Paine, two schoolgirls, intend to attempt to equal the record put up by the boys.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1924, Page 3
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159SWIMMING. Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1924, Page 3
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