“KEEP FIT” WEEK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 11

“KEEP FIT” WEEK

CELEBRATIONS BEGIN TO-DAY IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT The Wanganui "Keep Fit Week,” which is being promoted in conformity with a scheme launched at the instigation of the Government to better the physical standard of the race, will begin to-day. A special programme has been drawn up which embodies the various sporting fixtures of the week and includes special demonstrations and sports by primary and secondary schools. To-day the cricket match on Cook’s Gardens between Sir Julien Cahn’s team and Wanganui is to be featured. To-morrow churches in the city are to devote attention to the purposes and possible developments of the scheme in relation to spiritual and moral uplift. Special references will be made to it from the various pulpits. To-morrow afternoon demonstrations of swimming and life saving will be given by the Surf Club and city swimming clubs at Castlecliff Beach. Se -.tdary schools are to observe the week on Wednesday and primary schools on Friday. Thursday has been devoted to the first day of the Wanganui race meeting and at night a big civic demonstration is to take place, an appropriate procession moving through the streets to Cook’s Gardens, where a programme of special displays, marches, dances and sports events is to be organised. The final day, next Saturday, has been allocated to the second day ot the Wanganui race meeting, the j?ridge-to-bridge swimming race, the West Coast amateur athletic championships and the primary schools’ district swimming championships at the Durie Hill baths.