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INSTRUCTION IN SWIMMING VALUE OF LAND DRILL It is our duty to teach the young idea to swim. We ought to make swimming a compulsory part of the syllabus.” These remarks were made by Mr. A. Scott, Grey Lynn, at last night’s meeting of the School Committees’ Association. Mr. T. Aitken said it would manifestly be impossible for the department to engage a swimming expert for every school. Would knowledge of swimming have to be a qualification for school teachers? Rev. F. Greenwood: Should it be put in the curriculum of the Training College? The discussion was concerned chiefly with the possibility of fostering land drill to teach swimming. Mr. Scott, whose ideas were embodied in a resolution, said he had found the practice of a certain stroke, by means of land drill, very beneficial. “As a matter of fact,” he confessed, “it is the only stroke I know.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 310, 22 March 1928, Page 18
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151DROWNING PERIL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 310, 22 March 1928, Page 18
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