Champion Again

Lesley Clapham, of Gisborne, retained her New Zealand Junior Women's Diving Championship at Blenheim last weekend.

Lesley, who is also the Hawkes Bay-Poverty Bay women's champion, first won the national title last year.

She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs E. T. Clapham, of Anzac Street, and at 14 years of age already has an enviable record as a diver in the top class.

Pictures on this page were taken before Lesley left for Blenheim, while she was practising one of her dives—an inward one-and-a-half times somersault, at Macrae Baths.