Physical Fitness.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 369, 25 February 1937, Page 2

Physical Fitness.

A recent ca'ble message stated that Britain contemplated spending £2,000,000 on its l “Make Britons Fit” campaign. "The scheme provides for the immediate establishment of national advisory councils and a national college of physical training for instructors.” Women councillors include the tennis player,, Miss Dorothy Round, Mis® Margaret Morris, the principal of the Margaret Morris Dancing Institute, and Miss Prunella Stack, leader of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty, Lady Eleanor Keane, chairman of the National Council of Girls’ Clubs. According to the organising secretary of the Central Council of Physical Training (London), “the young men of Great Britain are still lagging far behind women Im the matter of physical fitnessl.'” The campaign had l made little appeal to the young men of the country. The secretary gave as one reason “the fact that young men are much more self-conscious than men.”