RECORD SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 12

RECORD SWIMMING CARNIVAL

EVENTS AT WHANGAREI (From Our Own Correspondent) WHANGAREI, Saturday. Tlie Whangarei Swimming Club held a record carnival at the school baths last night. Entries were good, the weather was line and the attendance the best seen at a local carnival. Results; 50 Yards Girls, under 14.—8. Boult. 1; D Brigham, 2. ' 50 Yards Boys, under 14.—F. Collins. 1; A. Walker, 2. Men’s Novice Handicap, 50yds.—A.' Howie. 1: R. Donaldson, 2. Time, 35sec. 06 2-3 Yards Boys, under 17.—A. Calvert, 1; H. Webber, 2. Girls, under 17, 66 2-3yds.—M. Ball, 1; M. Gurr, 2. Men’s 100yds.—J. Redwood, 1; T. Walsh, 2 Time, lmin 16 l-ssec. Women’s 66 2-3yds Handicap.—M. Ball, 3: N. Riley, 2. Men’s 66 2-3yds Handicap.—K. Symington, 1; J. Redwood, 2. Time, 43sec. Diving. —r. Humphrey, 1. At the beginning of the programme A. Walker, the Whangarei representative at the New Zealand championships and winner of the championship 100yds, gave an exhibition swim over three lengths of the baths. WEIR AT TE KUITI POOL FOR SWIMMERS (From Our Own Correspondent) TE KUITI, To-day. To celebrate the official opening of the swimming weir recently constructed on the Mangaokewa River, in j the heart of the town, a swimming carnival was held at Te Kuiti on Saturday afternoon. Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., declared the weir open. There was a large attendance. The Te Kuiti Women’s Civic League had charge of the arrangements for afternoon tea, and stallholders did brisk business. An effort to raise the remainder of the cost of building the weir is to be made within the next few days.