THE KEEP FIT MOVEMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1939, Page 4

THE KEEP FIT MOVEMENT

\’ES of sports bodies, recreational and musical societies and ediicational institutions should make a, point of attending tin 1 meeting called by the .Mayor ol Maslertou (Mr T. Jordan) and to be held in the ■Social Hall this (‘veiling. The immediate object of the meeting is to make arrangements for the observance of Keep Fit Week, from February US to February 25, but this is a beginning only in the. development of a national movement, which has every claim to encouragement and support.

It may be felt by a good many people that there is hardly time or opportunity to arrange any very elaborate demonstrations or displays in Mastertoll during Keep Fit Week, but organised efforts to foster and promote fitness of body and mind 1 hroiighout the community are so well worth while that- it may be hoped that an earnest elfort will be made at. least to lay foundations on which it may be possible Io build with advantage as time goes on. The immediate appeal is Io bodies of various kinds which in one way or another arc doing something to promote fitness, whether through the agency of sport or of eultiirai recreation. Many existing organisations are giving an excellent lead in this way and their active members should welcome Hie opportunity of getting together in order that they may to some extent co-ordinate their efforts and combine to overcome the difficulties by which they are laced.

There need be no question, at the meeting to be held this evening. of attempting to shape unduly ambitions immediate proposals or plans, but an elfort certainly should be made to ensure that .Masterton and the Wairarapa shall keep touch with a national movement which aims at. elevating standards ol physical and menial fitness throughout the community. In shaping local plans, il will be possible Io look for some guidance and assistance to tin* National Council of Physical Welfare ;i ll( | IbM-reation and that body, as its deputy-chairman, Mr J. W. Heenan, has pointed util, aims at interesting the public, not merely in physical recreation, but in mental and cultural recreation a-i well.