WORLD CONGRESS.
Discussion of Recreation in
London. 20 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, February 5. In anticipation of the world congress on recreation and leisure which will meet in London next week and will be attended by delegates from 20 countries, the National Fitness Council, which was set up in 11)37. states that schemes for increasing local facilities for games and exercise costing nearly £7.000.000 have been submitted during the past year.
Grants amounting to £1.319,187 have already been promised for swimming baths, community centres, clubs, camps, playing fields and gymnastic equipment. One county, chiefly of an agricultural character, shows that the number of people enrolling in classes for systematic physical education has multiplied over ten times in the past two years.
A Press Association message from Berlin says the organiser of the Reich Labour Front, Dr. Robert Ley, is going to London to-day at the invitation of the National Fitness Council. It is stated that he will be received by Mr. Chamberlain-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 9
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