LEARN TO SWIM WEEK
THIS YEAR’S ACTIVITIES. DANGER OF OPEN DRAINS. A distressing feature of the Dominion’s drowning fatalities over recent years has been the number of young children who have lost their lives through falling into open sumps and drains. Recently yet another two young children have been .lost in this manner. At a time when the Government has given £lOOO. for this year’s educational work, to the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, it is desired that parents take note of this risk, and where such open drains are located in their neighbourhood, warn their children of the danger with the same insistence that they would use in warning them to keep out of the way of traffic.
This year the Learn-to-Swim work will be handled mainly through the schools. In areas where instructors of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Branch are operating, it is intended that they shall co-operate with the swimming and educational authorities in this work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 4
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160LEARN TO SWIM WEEK Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 4
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