MAKING BRITONS FIT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 353, 6 February 1937, Page 5

MAKING BRITONS FIT

HEALTH CAMPAIGN.

BRITISH ACTION.

Ensuring That Every Child Achieves Physical Fitness. Press Association —Copyright. London, Feb. 4. Hew the Government will implement its “Make Britons Fit” campaign it outlined in a White Paper issued to-day. The scheme provides for the immediate establishment of national advisory councils and a national advisory council and a national college of physical training f]pr Instructors.

It is not Intended to build up a completely new compulsory system of training young Britons, but by systems of grants to utilise the existing machinery through the agency of local authorities and national voluntary organisations. The estimated expenditure of £2,000,000 will be spread over three years, after which the cost will continue to be £150,000 a year.

“Compulsion is wholly alien to the national temper and tradition," says a memorandum. “The Government’s aim is not to ensure that every cfflld achieves a certain standard of physical flfitnees, but to inculcate a wider realisation that physical fitness plays a vital part in promoting a healthy mind and human happiness.”