PHYSICAL FITNESS WEEK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 44, 22 February 1939, Page 6

PHYSICAL FITNESS WEEK

SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ DAY BIG PROCESSION TO-MORROW. To-day: Secondary Schools' Day Activities at the Collegiate Schooi, Girls' College and Concents and at the Gonville baths by the Technical College. To-morrow: Opening day of the Wanganui Jockey Club’s race meet ing. At night: Big physical fitness procession and display, through main streets and on Cook's Gardens. To-day's Events. To-day's programme will include a display of folk-dancing and drill on the Wanganui Girls’ College grounds from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to which the public is invited; the first portion of the Wanganui Technical College Boys’ swimming sports, a demonstration or exercises and organised games on the Convent grounds and a cricket match on the Collegiate School grounds between the school and Mr. A. S. Wilder's Hawke’s Bay eleven. The hours of play in the cricket match are 11 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. To-night a swimming carnival will be held in Marton by the Wanganui Swimming Centre which is making a practical effort to resuscitate the sport of swimming in Marton, the Marton Swimming Club at -present being a defunct body. Wanganui swimmers and life-savers will compete. Thursday Night's Programme. When the Pipe Band display has finished on Cook's Gardens on Thursday (to-morrow) night, and all units are in position, a march past directed by the chief marshal (Colonel F. Turnbull) and assistants will take place, headed by the Queen Alexandra Band. The whole assembly on the oval will then, at the command of the marshal, move forward to line in front of dais from which the Mayor, Mr. W. J. Rogers, and Mr. J. B. Cotterill, M.P., will speak. Units taking part in later displays will stand fast while other units, headed by the Technical College platoon, march off the oval in succession, through the exit on the Wilson Street side. The Regimental Band will play while the units march off. Details of the programme are: Drum-major’s display by the Wanganui Highland Pipe Band; march past; remarks by the Mayor, Mr. W. J. Rogers, and Mr. J. B. Cotterill, M.P.; team games, chariot races, and Flamborough sword dance. Girl Guides; Highland dancing h.v Miss V. Healy's pupils; health and beauty exercises by Miss Matthew's pupils;

tumbling by Y.M.C.A. juniors; cycling, one mile, by Wanganui A.A. and C. Club. Horn Pipe by Miss Healy’s pupils; fencing display by the Wanganui Sword Club; human pyramids by the Y.M.C.A. secondary classes: athletics, 100 yards event by Wanganui A.A. and C. Club; bridge-building and display by Boy Scouts; apparatus

work by Y.M.C.A. men's class; hakas. poi dances, songs by the Maori party: grace and rhythm by the Y.M.C.A. women’s class; baseball demonstration the Wanganui Baseball Association; 440 yards race and three miles cycle race by the Wanganui A.A. and C. Club.