GYMNASTICS FOR WORKPEOPLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3027, 26 October 1908, Page 4

GYMNASTICS FOR WORKPEOPLE.

A writer in the "World's Work" calls attention to the importance ot employing good athletic men as commercial travellers, and generally to develop the physique of employees as a means of improving business. A large iron and steel concern employing a great percentage of high-grade men, most of whom are technical graduates, has worked out a scheme whereby all the employees, no matter what the nature of their work may be, are able to leave the building when the whistle blows in a perfectly presentable shape. There is nothing to indicate that these men have worked in a factory. They have equipped their plant with a large swimming pool and immense shower baths. Each man has his own locker and key, and the* 1 company keeps the place neat and clean. The manager of this company told me that his firm had nevej made a better investment and

that they are going to acid a complete gymnasium to the plant. The writer says that if he were sure that his men would spend half an hour's time in a gymnasium every night, he would willingly let off the entire staff half an hour earlier.