THE FITNESS CAMPAIGN.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1939, Page 6

THE FITNESS CAMPAIGN.

QOOl) preliminary work has been done by a Masterton committee which has made arrangements for a procession on Saturday, February.lB, in connection with the Keep Fit campaign. It is proposed that bands, the Fire Brigade, the Legion of Frontiersmen, Territorials, College Cadets, members of sports clubs and other bodies, and school children should take part on that day in a procession to the Park, where a programme of games, dancing and other events will, follow. Adequate support is needed from clubs and other organisations if the project is to be carried out. A very good method seems thus to have been adopted of ascertaining what prospects there are of developing the united organisation which would make it possible to carry on a continuing fitness campaign in Masterton. Given a good beginning, much may follow. The various bodies that are being appealed to have common interests which they may advance by getting together in a spirit of co-opera-tion. There are sports bodies, for example, which may strengthen their organisation and build up their membership by entering into an alliance with dramatic or debating clubs, or linking up with movements like the W.E.A., loung Farmers clubs ami others. The aim of the fitness campaign is to promote an all-round cultivation of body and mind, and projects like the procession proposed for February 18 are intended only as first steps towards building up a permanent. community organisation which will pursue that excellent aim by every means available as time goes on. The (dubs and other organisations that are being appealed to meantime to support ami take pari in the procession are thus offered an opportunity of strengthening their own position and of engaging in a community movement that is from every point of view splendidly worth while.