BUILDING BODIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 158, 6 July 1937, Page 8

BUILDING BODIES.

BOYS AND BUSINESS MEN. POPULAR Y.M.C.A. CLASSES. "It is better to build boys than to mend men." So reads a sign in Wellesley Street outside the headquarters of the Young Men's Christian Association. Its full significance, however, cannot be realised until you enter the building and see for yourself what the association is doing to carry out this slogan. Last night, for instance, more than 60 boys who attend schools in the city area were seen in the gymnasium performing various body-building exercises. In the search for bodily health the mind is not forgotten. Included in the boys' programme last night wae an edurational film, "The Beaver at Work," and after this had been shown the boys, inder the supervision of older 1 leaders, lipid discissions on-problems relating to the life of the boy. They then completed a night of beneficial recreation "ith team competitions and relay races. After the day's work was over yesterday a number 01 Auckland businessmen gathered in the gymnasium to combat the "middle-aged spread." These 30 cr 40 older members of the af <y iation, engaged in "limbering-up" exercises and calisthenics. After the older men had had their "work-out," about 70 younger men were Keen performing a variety of exercises calculated to keep them lit, finishing their course with a game of basketball