KEEP-FIT CAMPAIGN
Personnel of British Health Council LEADERS OF SPORTS LONDON, Feb. 12. Leaders of various national sports are included in the National Advisory Council under the Government 's new physical fitness scheme. Notable are the members of the House of Uommons, Lord Burghley, and Mr Noei Baker, both former Olympic representatives, and Mr W. Ws Wakefield, ex-eaptain of England; at Rugby. There are also Mr S. F. Rous, secretary of the Football Association, Captain J. G. Paterson, director of physical training for the Industrial W elf are Society, and also commandant of the Duke of York's camp. The women councillors include the tennifl player Miss Dorothy Round, Miss Margaret Morris, prmcipal of the Margaret Morris Dancing Institute, Miss Prunella Stack, leader of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, and Lady Eleanor Keane, chairman of the N..tional Council of Girls' Clubs. Medical members in,clude Lord Dawson of Penn, King George V's physician. The council numbers 30, in addition to the chairman, Lord Aberdare, a former Middlesex cricketer. The remaining members represent social, education, and physical training movements throughout the country.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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