LEARN TO SWIM
DEMONSTRATION BY VISITING SQUAD LATEST TEACHING METHODS. DISPLAY IN MASTERTON. There was a large attendance of the public at the Masterton swimming baths yesterday afternoon to see a display given by a squad of Wellington children under Mr McCabe, of the latest methods of teaching children to swim. The system gives very spectacular results, and the scheme is sponsored by the Wellington Swimming Centre and is worked at a centralised school where all the surrounding schools send in classes of thirty for instruction. The scheme continues throughout the year, and the.instructress, Mrs McCabe, who holds life saving credentials, works purely on a voluntary basis and in an honorary capacity, nuts through each day over one hundred children. They learn to swim in an average of six lessons, but in the demonstrations yesterday ’ at Martinborough, Featherston, Carterton and Masterton, the instruction known as “The Six Beat Crawl” was given in one crowded lesson. In a class of twenty Masterton children provided by the local schools, twelve learnt to swim in one lesson, and satisfactory results were also attained in other Wairarapa towns. The classes start with hand drill, in which all the arm and leg movements are gone through and practised thoroughly before the children enter the water. When in the water the teacher was very particular that, working from the bins, the legs flutter up and down in the" crawl without breaking out of the water, also in the initial stages the hands did not come out of the water. The breathing, too, was insisted on as being very important. Mr H. E. Pither, president of the Masterton Swimming Club, welcomed the visitors and expressed warm appreciation of the presence with the party of some of the leading Wellington swimming executives. He expressed regret that the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, had been unable to be present. Members of the Borough Council and the Town Clerk, Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith, were present, and a warm welcome was extended on theii’ behalf to the visitors by Councillor W. Kemp. Replies were given by Mr G. C. Read. Educational Officer to the Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Swimming Association, and Mr Look, president of the Wellington Swimming Centre. Mr D. Woodfield, National Council or Sport, and Mr F. Adam, treasurer of the Wellington Swimming Centre, were also in the party. The visitors were entertained at afternoon tea at the Park Tea Kiosk, and afterwards admired very much the Fernery and Rose Garden, shown them by Councillor H. E. Gardner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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421LEARN TO SWIM Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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