RECREATION WEEK

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 239, 27 September 1939, Page 2

RECREATION WEEK

COMM ENCd'NG SAT UK DAY .National Kecreation Week commences next Saturday. As was tincase in “Fitness Week” the local Physical Welfare and Kecreation Committee is confining its activities to two or three days. The committee, is giving a lead by organising these functions' and it is hoped that recreational bodies will arrange'other functions for the rest of the week. As has already been pointed out that in contrast to “Fitness Meek”, when in. most eases the • activities were ticsigned to draw attention to physical well-being by special parade and demonstration. this “Kecreation Week” is intended to stress the “cultural” forces in the community. .1 he liuutions arranged by the committee will include* a number of forms of recreation such as singing, drama, orchestral, dancing and band. 'Then in the outdoor sport there will be lootball, basketball, athletics, baseball, an dother games. It is the committee’s duty to convince people of the. value of these recreations and it is hoped the efforts put fonvardt will have the desired efleet. The fact that the nation is in a state of war leaves noi room for uncertainty about- the place of the Physical Wrll'are and Kecreation movement in the national scheme of things. "is -abundantly obvious that *.lwun the movement being redundant at a - time like the present. x it ha s in it po- ' tcntialitie.s for maintenance of national morale, the training of youths, entertainment of workers, and Unwholesome and healthful rebel cl the conditions of morbid tension thatmight otherwise arise. It is highly desirable that the physical welfare and recreation work should be pursued vigorously and enthusiastically. Ibe indirect results ol this, in the wax ol strengthening our capabilities ter assisting in whatever • ways the Mother Country may dclsire ol us. .must on reflection be* obvious. All those objects are implicit in tin* work the movement is carrying out. After a long initial .period of planning and: the establishing of machinery, the movement is now gathering way.