SPORT FOR GIRLS
CHIEF JUSTICE’S ADVICE
JAPAN’S EXAMPLE QUOTED
Support for the active participation of girls in the more strenuous sports was voiced by the Chief Justice of Tasmania, Sir Herbert Nicholls, at the annual meeting of the Tasmanian Amateur Athletic Association. For centuries, he pointed out, Japanese girls had taken part in physical culture and heavy games as freely as men, and it was noticed that Japanese women, taking them as a whole, were of excellent physique and enjoyed remarkably good health. It was also claimed by some that they made ideal mothers.
In view of that, if critics said that girls who ran races and entered into athletic competitions were wrong, he thought there was much to be said for the girls.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 7
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124SPORT FOR GIRLS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 7
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