PHYSICAL CULTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3765, 4 May 1907, Page 2

PHYSICAL CULTURE.

The members of the Physical Culture School were agreeably surprised when word was received yesterday that Mr Jarrett would personally conduct his classes as usual. Owing to the country between Palmerston N. and Oroua Bridge being completely submerged and the railway for some three miles being under water, the opinion was expressed that the classes this week would have to be abandoned ; notwithstanding the state of the country, Mr Jarrett, rather than disappoint his pupils, drove through from Feilding, a distance of about thirty miles. When he arrived at the class, one of his pupils remarked : “By jove, Mr Jarrett, we never thought you would get through.” “My syllabus reads 7.15,” was the terse reply. Actions speak louder than words, and as a result the instructor had record classes for both sexes. The ladies’ class now numbers sixteen and the men’s thirty-one. As soon as the men’s class totals thirty-five pupils a flashlight photo will be taken of the class at exercise and the picture sent to Sandow’s magazine for re-production. This, it is believed, is a record class for New Zealand in proportion to its population, thirteen hundred. Foxton has reason to congratulate itself on the fact that its young men and women are so keenly alive to their physical welfare. So long as this enthusiasm lasts so long will the “All Blacks” sustain their supremacy, not only in football and other pastimes, but in the strenuous business life as well. If all the N.Z. teachers of physical culture are as full of vigour and enthusiasm as Mr Jarrett, the race will not decay. Mr Sandow has left us an able lieutenant. The next class night will be Wednesday, May Bth, in Masonic Hall.