PHYSICAL TRAINING.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1918, Page 6

PHYSICAL TRAINING.

GREAT SUCCESS OF CI CAMP. Tn reply to a question by a Press representative on Thursday, Sir James Allen, (Minister of Defence) said that the matter of providing an appeal tribunal in connection with the medic*-! examination oi' reservists had not yet reached 'him, but the Minister took the opportunity to refer to the work being done at the CI Camp. "The 01 Camp, : ' Sir James said, "is startling evidence of the value of the special physical training of mea. I tell you (hat we will get over 50 per cent, of the men who go into the CI Camp physically fit for bhe front. It is almost impossible to say definitely that a man is not fit until he his fieen to (his camp. There is the question of men sent to camp who arc ultimately turned down. It is aascrted that this is a wjate of money, and that the man's business has been disturbed. It is perfectly true, and we arc very sorry for it, but the case of | such a man is not so bad as if he had not been discovered to be physically unfit, and had been sent on to run the risk of going_ to die front. The lessons we are learning at the CI Camp will be carried out in our civil life uTter the war ig efided, for it has been shown Uiat with physical training wo can make mea nb T . sieally fit." l >