PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SUPERINTENDENT ARRIVES EXPEL’] ENDED' OFFICEP ■gPar Presn Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The newly-appointed superintendent of physical education, Mr. Philip A. Smithells, formerly director of this department at the University College of Exeter, has arrived in New Zealand to take up his duties with the Department of Education at Wellington. He has studied in some of the foremost institutions in the world.
“I dislike the term ‘physical jerks,’ ” Mr. Smithells said, in the course of an interview. -“It presupposes many things that are out of focus with modern thought and practice. “I think ‘physical education’ is a' much better description.”
Apart from courses of training in England, the Continent, Denmark and Sweden, he has seen much of the work being done in physical education in the United States. It is his opinion that a blending of English and American methods would produce the best results. He had no idea until he had seen the authorities in Wellington what the scope of his field would be. but from what he had heard of the Dominion his experience would be interesting.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 12
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180PHYSICAL EDUCATION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 12
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