Importance of Life-saving

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 35, 11 February 1937, Page 2

Importance of Life-saving

NEED OF STEPS TO PREVENT DROWNING (Special to “Times”) NAPIER, Feb. 10. “I take this opportunity of paying a tribute to the Minister of Transport on the steps he has taken to reduce tho danger to life and limb on the roads, and I would respectively suggest to the authorities the need for realising the equal importance of reducing the number of deaths through drowning on our shores and coasts,” said the Mayor, Mr G. A. Maddison, in the course of his welcome to tho Australian surf life-saving team in Hastings last evening. Air Maddison said it was to be hoped that this visit, the first ever to have been paid New Zealand by an AustraJian surf team, would stimulate the authorities and encourage them *to realise the need for making a determined effort to reduce to a minimum the dangers encountered on the shores. He hoped that the authorities would take steps to impress upon tho Gov* ernment 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 Air J. Cameron, manager of the Australian team, in reply. “W© want to teach you people in New Zealand as much as we can, and we are indeed proud of being' members of the first Australian life-! saving team to visit you.”