NO REGIMENTATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1943, Page 4

NO REGIMENTATION

PHYSICAL WELARE FOR YOUTH The Hon. W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, remarked at the .recent meeting of the National Council of Physical Welfare and Recreation that despite his several denials of allegations that the Government had in mind a regimentation scheme for youth certain critics still persisted with their misrepresentation of the position. There was no element of compulsion for anybody in the national policy. In its administration of the Act the Department wished to have friendly, helpful co-operation with existing sports bodies and other organisatons. The officers did not interfere in any way with the domestic concerns of clubs or other bodies which they were always willing to help with advice or expert instruction. They were working wholly in the national field find were in a position to undertake Various kinds of important work which no other organisation, public or private, was equipped to do. This kind of service came notably into operation when the Provincial Councils of Sport Were being formed. Dr. Beeby (Director of Education) said that the relations of the Departments of Internal Affairs and Education, in the field of physical training and recreation, were of the best.