SWIMMING AWARDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1943, Page 2

SWIMMING AWARDS

PRESENTATION AT WEST SCHOOL. PUPIL’S SPLENDID PERFORMANCE A meritorious performance in swimming was recognised at the Masterton West School yesterday by the presentation of cups to lan Reynolds, winner of the Wairarapa Primary Schools' Championship for three distances, the 25, 50 and 75 yards and also the junior boys’ championship for all distances. Mr H. E. Pither, patron of the Masterton Swimming Club, in making the presentation before the scholars of the school, drew attention to the splendid strides lan Reynolds had made in his swimming since he joined the club and predicted a bright future for him in the swimming world. The great value of swimming, one of the most interesting of athletic sports and its present day usefulness to airmen and soldiers was stressed by Mr Pither, in presenting life saving awards won by the West School scholars during the year. The Masterton Swimming Club, Mr Pither said, had most of its good swimmers away at the front and it was the keenness of the younger members, mostly drawn from the schools, that had made the club function so successful during the last two years. He hoped that with their own baths to assist them West School would produce many more good swimmers to follow lan Reynolds.