An Australian initiative which began in 1982 as a test event for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. School Sport Australia took over the event and it became the flagship of the Australian sports programme. The Pacific School Games in Canberra in 2008 was the eigth in the series.
Pacific School Games
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New Zealand swimmers, coaches, and swimming events
Date: 1964-1999
From: Swimming New Zealand :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9414-8
Description: The focus of this collection is mainly on New Zealand swimmers, swimming teams, coaches, officials, and national and international events. Included are - New Zealand junior swimming team, Australian tour, 1964. New Zealand team to Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh, 1986. Team to Pacific School Games, Sydney, 1988. Swimming team to Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956. Unidentified team with a soccer ball. Swimming New Zealand national development camps, October 1999. Swimming New Zealand national development camp, October 1998. Team to Tip Top Australian Swimming Championships, Adelaide, April 1998. Team to Tip Top Australian National Age Group Swimming Championships, Hobart 1999. New Zealand team to Olympic Games, Sydney 2000. Swimming and diving team to Olympic Games, Montreal, 1976. Swimming New Zealand logos. Unidentified group. Participants in swimming event, New Plymouth 1968. Graphic portrait of Rowland St Clair. Quantity: 10 colour original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 electronic scan(s).
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New Zealand swimmers, coaches, and swimming events
Date: 1919-2000
From: Swimming New Zealand :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9414-6
Description: The focus of this collection is mainly on New Zealand swimmers, swimming teams, coaches, officials, and national and international events. Included are - photocopies of swimming trophies (stalag shields) made by prisoners of war in German prison camps. Swimming team for Pacific School Games, Sydney, 1988. Proof sheet of the swimming team for Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000. Panoramas of an unidentified New Zealand swimming team. Swimming team for Australian Winter National Championships, 1980. Group of swimmers at an event which includes Graeme Brockett and coach Don Inkster, ca 1960s. Swimming team to Brisbane, 1971. New Zealand Amateur Swimming Assocation national coaching school, Hamilton, 1958. Official group outside the Riddiford Baths, Lower Hutt, 1930s or early 1940s. Portrait of Sir Robert Stout, 1921. European diving champion, E Poussard, performing a back dive. Four women on New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association educational tour, Christchurch, 1949. Team for New Zealand-Australian under 18 swimming tri series, July 1990. Probably New Zealand Amateur Swimming association conference delegates, early 1920s. New Zealand Amateur Swimming association officers, ca 1919. Probably New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association conference delegates, early 1940s. Swimming and diving team for the Commonwealth Games, Brisbane, 1982. French visitors with members of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association Council, 1930s. Members of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association council. Swimming team to New South Wales, January 1879. Swimming team to Australian Age Championshios, Perth, 2000. Swimming team to to World Championships, Cali, Colombia, 1975. Swimmimg tean for Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956. Group of swimmers, Napier, January 1926. Women swimmers who represented New Zealand at the 1928 Olympic Games, Amsterdam. Swimming team for the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association Californian tour, 1982. National school for coaches and swimmers, Hamilton, 1959-1960. Japanese touring team and New Zealand team, 1969. National coaching school, August 1960. New Zealand team for the Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh, 1986. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). 15 colour original photographic print(s).