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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1927, Page 1

Hecommendatioiis have been mad' time and again to the Kducation Department to have swimming made a compulsory subject in the schools, am! while there are difficulties in the way where facilities are lacking, there is no reason why that course could no he adopted where they exist. But the most unsatisfactory fact is that the students in the training colleges are not compelled to include swimming and life-saving in their course, though they are called upon to have some knowledge of music and sewing. In the four centres there are at least 1200 trainees, half of whom go out every year into the schools of the Dominion, yet, apart from those who take the subject voluntarily, or have acquired proficiency previously, no attention is given to what should he one essential branch of their training. The work being done by the- New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association deserves the highest praise, and if, in addition, it endeavoured to see that young teachers left the training colleges equipped to teach swimming and life-saving, still greater results could be expected.— Hawera “Star.”