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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1938, Page 7

In his presidential address to the English National Association of Schoolmasters, Mr A. E. Evans said that while welcoming the physical fitness campaign, he could not avoid the reflection that this sudden and newfound inspiration followed swiftly on the parading and marching to and fro, the musketry drill of the regimented youth of Italy and Germany. A statesmanlike review of the whole problem of a physically fit nation, and a sincere belief in it from a humanitarian and good will toward all men basis, would instinctively reject the subsidising of the milk industry to provide the raw material for the making of umbrella handles, shoe buckles, or buttons, while denying to sick children at home the free milk they might drink at school, were they not prevented byillness and weakness from going there to get it. “A broad-based and farsighted plan for a physically fit people includes a plan for mental fitness to appreciate and use to the full every means for attaining health and strength,” he added.