THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1902. PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 274, 25 October 1902, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1902. PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

At their meeting on Tuesday evening, the Waimate High School Board of Governors did a wise in setting up a committee to confer with the School Committee and the Technical Classes Association on the matter of the physical education of the children of the Waimate school. Education is a general term standing for training of thee kinds, mental, moral and physical, and there is a great tendency to encourage the first

named, and neglect the other two.

At present the boys have more attention paid to their physical training than girls. Boys are encouraged to play football, ciicket, and other games calculated to give them plenty of exercise and develop their bodies. Bat little can be’done for the girls, and there is also, as every teacher knows, a number of boys who cannot be persuaded to go out into the football or cricket field and do their

share. It is to these boys and to the girls that the establishment of a gymnasium would be of most benefit. It is a well-known fact that’physical training makes the mind more vigorous and alert, and New Zealand wants all the vigour and alertness of body and mind possible in our future men and women.

We would suggest to the committees who will discuss this question, that they try to make some arrangement with the trustees of the drillehed, by which the latter could be used as the school gymnasium. It is near the school, it contains already a good number of gymnastic appliances and is in every way suited for the proposed purpose. It is unlikely that enough money could be raised to erect so suitable a building as the drill shed and this has the advantage of being ready now. We hope that no time will be lost in arranging for an instructor and starting what is sure to be one of the most popular classes in the school course.