SWIMMING TESTS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 10

SWIMMING TESTS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The New Zealand executive of the Royal Life Saving Society agreed last evening that a certificate should be provided for school children, the test to be a 50yds swim by the correct breaststroke and a 25yds swim by the backstroke, using the legs only. In addition, pupils shall dive from the surface and recover an object in sft of water.

Schoolboys’ Big Score Schoolboy cricketers of Sydney artstarting early to follow in the footsteps of Alan Kippax and his like. A feature of the second-half of the Great Publio Schools competition was i the mammoth score compiled by The I King’s in its victory over Sydney High School. The boys from Parramatta knocked up 649 runs for seven wickets, three individual scores being 223, 106 and 109. Sydney High School was disposed of for 118 runs. Tennis Player's World Cruise I Alan Gerbault, the French tennis ■ player, who is cruising round the j world single-handed in a 10-ton cutter, j blew in at Mauritius last month looking like a Kanaka when he stepped I ashore. He dressed and lunched with ! the Governor, played tennis, and went j back to his cutter to spend the night, j The next leg of his journey is across j to Capetown, where he hopes to meet j the South African tennis champion.