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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 392, 27 December 1946, Page 3

SOUND BODIES for SOUND MINDS There was a time when education wa8 66 concerned chiefly with the three Rs" Today this is not enough: Mind and body must be active and fit Free milk daily, and free apples in season are now supplied to primary school children. Free dental services have been greatly extended. Medical care is provided for all schools, and &a school doctor study of the growing human body. More can arrange for any child to g0 to one than fifty men and women specially of our seven Health Camps for up to six trained in the new methods are engaged weeks. whole-time in physical education in the A true balance primary schools and training colleges. The folly of attempting to cram the mind and make n0 allowance for the High production will pay physical stresses and strains of growing Every advance in education costs money, up is a thing of the past in New Zealand s but can any nation make a better invest State schools We want balanced ment 2 Our steady progress can be main- youngsters with healthy minds in well- tained only by steady work from all of developed bodies. Games and rhythmic uBe Only a high rate of production 'will exercises are nOw based on scientific pay for a high standard of 'living: KEEP PRODUCTION HIGH I $ S U E D B Y T H E N E W Z E A L A N D G 0 V E R N M E N T