A large percentage of New Zealand school children suffer from faulty posture, states the annual report of the Director of the Division of School Hygiene (Dr Elizabeth Gunn). An Auckland medical officer is quoted as stating: "Nearly all the children in the schools are round-shouldered. The carriage of the head is bad, the eyes being directed on the ground some few feet in front of the child instead of being directed straight forward. The whole attitude is one indicating a want of muscular tone. Undoubtedly the school curriculum, with its addiction to desk work, perpetuates, if it does not cause, the stooping attitude." The report adds that with the appointment of additional physical instructors to the Education Department, an improvement can be expected.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1940, Page 2
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