LEARNING TO SWIM
COMPULSION ON SCHOOL CHILDREN. PROPOSED BY EDUCATIONAL OFFICERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A departmental ruling, giving teachers authority to insist on children taking swimming instruction, will be sought by the educational officers of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. The annual conference of these officers carried the following motion this morning;— “That the Education Department be. asked to give a ruling on the authority of a teacher to insist on children, who have no reasonable excuse for not doing so, participating in swimming in-
struction.” “We hope to reach goal of saying that every child in New Zealand physically able to do so can swim, and I think it is not blind optimism, to say that the goal is now within measurable distance,” said the President of the Association, Mr F. G. Dunn, when welcoming visitors at the conference this morning. Mr Dunn continued: “In the last three years 90,000 children have gone through the educational officers’ hands and that is a record of which they are entitled to be very proud.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 6
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