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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 8, No. 4 April 18, 1945

First VUC Swimming Champ. Since '35

First VUC Swimming Champ. Since '35

From the point of view of Victoria the most interesting feature was the attainment of the first swimming championship by VUC since 1935, the women's 50 yards, which was won by Pat Cummins. VUC gained also three second places and finished on a par with AUC and CUC, but as OU took as many points as the other three Colleges put together, the issue was never in doubt.

Marie Pasalich (AUC) reduced the NZU record for women's 100 yards breaststroke by 6 seconds, but failed to repeat her own NZ record, partly due to the coldness of the water and possibly because of lack of competition.

NZU women's 50 yards record was broken by Miss J. Fraser (OU) during the heats, but Pat Cummins (VUC) defeated her in the final with a poorer time.

Otago's overall superiority was best demonstrated in the relay, which they won easily.

An unexpected, unheralded and unofficial novelty was Mr. Evan de Berry's (Otago, formerly Victoria and Canterbury) dash of the length of the Thorndon Baths, done for the sake of a wager, and remarkable in that he made it fully dressed and complete with cigarette.