WORD OF WARNING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 8

WORD OF WARNING

CHILDREN IN WAR PERIOD ADULTS OF TO-MORROW "There is a word of warning that i would like to issue and that i: hat during times like the present, it is easy co forget the chilc.ren < .o-day, who, perl ops, will need ciu care more than the children of peace - ,ime. They are the men and w6m.cn of to-morrow, and if the race is te endure, they must not be neglected," Said the president of the New Zen.and Ama.cur Swimming Association. Mr. F. G. Dunn, referring in his ad-

dress to the annual conference in Wellington to the part of the associnion in wartime.

Mr. Dunn said that it behoved the tssacialion to frame its policy so the, 61 it could do toward a .successful conclusion of the war would be done it was not a little they could contribute, "or phys’eal fitness was c paramount importance.

Addressing tne conference the Minister of internal Affairs, Mr. Parry said lie thought that the association would do rightly to go ahead with i..~ programme with as little alteration as the emergency situation allowed. Anything so conducive to physical fitness as swimming was most valuable at a lime like this. The pursuit of the association’s aims was likely to have its effect on the maintenance if national moral and confidence, vhich was I’q't ii!v invariant.