LEARN TO SWIM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1938, Page 4

LEARN TO SWIM

SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TO BE TAUGHT. PROJECT FOR THIS SUMMER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Unanimous approval of a scheme to teach 75,000 people to swim this summer. and of a plan to fix minimum subscriptions of 10s a year for each senior club member, with the object of providing a Dominion-wide coaching system, was forthcoming at a special meeting of the Canterbury Swimming Centre last evening. Both projects were explained in detail by the president of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association (Mr F. G. Dunn), who traversed the conclusions reached at a conference of the centres in Wellington last week. Mr Dunn remarked that he hoped to address every centre in New Zealand on the plans proposed. “If and when the coaching scheme reaches maturity, it will reach every club and every swimmer- in New Zealand,’’ MrDunn said., “It is not a scheme to make a champion world-beater, but to make the mediocre swimmer a good swimmer, and to make the person who can’t swim a swimmer.” Referring to the big “Learn to Swim” Movement, Mr Dunn explained that the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry), had put a trust on the association to teach 75,000 persons to swim, and it was up to Canterbury to find its quota of 100 men required to carry out the scheme.

Mr V. G. Spiller, who presided, assured Mr Dunn that the centre would pull its weight in the scheme to produce 75000 swimmers.