FITNESS FOR LIVING
" Fitness "forTIving, fitness for working— htness for flghting; if it must be — can never he obtained by physical measures, whether these he educational or recreative. There are other still more bas.ic things that are imperative in this matter: food, shelter, air and leisure," said Lord Horder in his m&iden speech in the House of Lords. "All these are essential to that rise in health and morale which, if we take the long view, are requisite. I therefore urge the Government not to cease from any of the efforts in these directions which already stand to the credit of the Minigtry of Health, of Labour and of Education, but rather that these. methods be intensified and expedited. . . . Finally, I hope that we shall not he regimented. I cannot think it is necessary. Let the Government have faith that if the people of Britain are given the modest requirements of security at home and security of sustenanee, their sturdy common sense will do the rest."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370122.2.16.3
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 4
Word Count
166FITNESS FOR LIVING Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. 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 NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in