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PHYSICAL TRAINING

WORK AMONG THE CHILDREN TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY The Minister of Education (Bon. C. J. Parr) paid a visit 'to the lerrace School yesterday for the purpose of.int’he physical culture classes at wo,k He told a dominion reporter subsequently that the Department had now fourteen physical instructors, who had received their training in the military camps. They were experts in the development of the body and the culuxation of physical efficiency. These instructors trained teachers, who in turn gave instruction to the children. The syllabus provided that the children atfending the primary schools should icceive this training for fifteen, minute® Ca “ The exorcises have been carefully designed by experts, nwdical and otheiw'iso,” said the Minister. They are intended to develop the lungs, cultivate proper methods of breathing and produce an upright and graceful cnniag . which may lie said to be sadly lacking in the generation that lias just grown un Dr. Ada Patterson, of the schools medical staff, has stressed .another aspect of this matter lately The can be used to correct physical defects, and I was verv interested to s cc Ncsferd.y a special class of twenty children taking remedial exercises . under the direction of the infant unstTew. Ui? sults obtained, I am informed, are often ln Th o S} Mittefer y added that the older exercises, which had often been faulty from an atomical slandnoint. were being replaced. The Junior Cadet system had fessed good points, but he preferred the newer system.

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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 6

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PHYSICAL TRAINING Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 6

PHYSICAL TRAINING Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 6

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