Yes, the 'Ten Bob Tourist' was a common theme for Poms (That's what anyone from England was called in them days) to either go to Victoria, Adelaide or New Zealand. Unusual for them to settle in West Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales or Queensland.
Specifically on this topic, I recall that I 'volunteered' to get my certificate through school at the Radford Baths. I almost drowned on my first 'lesson'. Eventually got there though.
Problem in wearing glasses in those days, as soon as you walked into the pool area, couldn't see a thing as the glasses fogged up...