SWIMMING.

Shannon News, 3 December 1929, Page 4

SWIMMING.

VALUE OF LIFE SAVING. The opinion that every, child should receive tuition in swimming and life saving was stressed by Mr D. C. Pryor, first assistant of the Terrace End School, when outlining to the school committee what the newly formed- Terrace End Swimming and Life- Saving Club contemplated carrying out in that respect, Mr Pryor stated that the necessity for such tuition was becoming * more apparent daily and there were many swimmers, who had no knowledge of life .saving, especially. of resuscitation work. To illustrate how a swimmer might be able to rescue a drowning person and then be at a disadvantage through a lack of knowledge of tre art of resuscitation, Mr Pryor . quoted a happening at Napier, when two men had rescued a child, who was unconscious, from the water and stood by helpless to do more until a boy, with his knowledge of the work had appeared on the scene and restored the child. At an inquest concerning the death of a surf bather at Tauranga recently, the coroner, Mr A. F. Tanks, said:— “Surf bathing is ail acquired art. It contains an element of risk at any time and to any person, but particularly' to a person who is not accustomed to it, and who is not a swimmer. Peo: .pie in the latter case should do their bathing with or near to others who are accustomed to the conditions, and the rest will follow, as bathers and boaters are usually quite willing to impart their safety lore to the uninitiated.