SCHOOL SWIMMING CARNIVAL
After concluding the other business at its special meeting on Tuesday niglit, the Levin School Committee together with those who actively associated in promoting the School Swimming Carnival last year, formed a joint committee to make arrangements for the carrying out of a similar function this year. Hes* sro ltockel and Harding, of tlie teaching stall', were added to the Committee, and February 13 was fixed upon for holding the gathering. The Secretary (Mr Cork) was directed to make application to the Borough Council for the use of the baths on that date. Valuable trophies have already been donated. Dr Bryson gives two gold medals valued at 25s each for the boys' and girls' championships. Mr J. Bertram gives three trophies valued at 10s Gd each; Mr T. Broom, two at 10s fid each; Messrs W. G. Victors, and J. Mclntyre, one each at 10s fid ;in addition donations varying" from 7s Gd to 5s 'were promised from those present.
A lengthy and varied programme of swimming and diving events was mapped out and in addition there will be a relay race ■schoolboys in the Utaki electorate for the valuable shield presented by Mr John Robertson. The shield, which has been in existence for sonic years, was won by the Boys' Training Farm School, from whom no effort has been made to wrest it for some time. As there are now no school boys on the Farm to compete, the Acting Manager lias decided to hand tlie shield over for competition •again. Further features of the carnival will be an exhibition quarter mile swim by Mr W. Plaster, a. swimmer with an English reputation, and trick diving and swimming by Mr Bowen. 'Mr Les. Scott, manager of Everybody's pictures, will do some water feats of sensational nature. He undertakes to allow himself to be thrown handcuffed into the water and to be tied up in a sack and dropped into the deep end of the baths, and to extricate him self in a given time. Altogether the carnival promises to be the best of its kind held in Levin.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 January 1918, Page 2
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