CAN WE RETAIN OUR COUNTRY’S TRADITIONAL PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY?

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1939, Page 9

CAN WE RETAIN OUR COUNTRY’S TRADITIONAL PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY?

DOTiH the Mayor and the Member for Masterton have, in their special messages above, stressed the need for fully employing the leisure time resulting from the adaptation of our lives to the industrial age in which we live. When New Zealand was a primitive pioneering nation, physical fitness was a natural enough characteristic of our people. Today, however, we live and work under different conditions; conditions which tend to destroy physical'-, fibre.' We should, therefore, aim at recapturing the, physical ideals'of the past and so maintain a physical efficiency which was so charactertic of years gone by. The coming demonstrations should assist such an object.

This page, stressing the need for building a physically and mentally fit nation, has been generously sponsored by the following Masterton business houses: — Hendry & Dickson, Men’s Mercers, Queen Street. C. E. Daniell, Ltd., Hardware Merchants. W.F.C.A., Ltd., General Merchants. Hansell Laboratories, Ltd., the Essence Specialists of New Zealand. Tatton’s Rangatira Service Station, Motor Engineers. Hugo & Shearer, Ltd., The Drapery Store for Value. Fagan Motors, Ltd., Authorised Ford Dealers.