GYNASTIC CARNIVAL
A gymnastic, carnival organised by tho Young Men's Christian Association in aid of the local association's Soldiers' Fund was held iu tho Grand Opera House on Saturday evening. Tho programme' was a lengthy and varied one, and tho many performers, mon, women, boys, and girls, made it thoroughly interesting. Graceful marches and movements, exhibitions of club swinging, .fencing drill, ball swinging, skipping, and rod exercises, parallel bar work, and a spectacular finale were among tho items. A' high degree of training and physical proficiency was shown throughout, and the effect was enhanced by tho attractive uniforms of tho various squads. Tho work of a largo team of small girls v.as particularly appreciated by the audience. Mr. M. Hugo gave an exhibition of weight-lifting, and showed fine muscular development. A display of horizontal bar work by a squad of men was £ very good item, and the audience was keenly interested in a demonstration of ju-jitsu methods of attack and defence by Messrs. H. A. Parker, W. J. Wray, 'and K. Dickson. A couple of clowns provided humorous relief at various stages of the entertainment.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19161106.2.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2921, 6 November 1916, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
185GYNASTIC CARNIVAL Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2921, 6 November 1916, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in