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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 8

“Physical culture and proficiency in games are being developed on a mass scale in Europe. In the military colleges of Italy and France, in particular, these courses are compulsory,” said Mr Geza Szekany, a Hungarian, who has been a manager, director of sport, and physical culture expert for many years, when he arrived at Auckland. After spending the last year in England he is visiting New Zealand to see the sporting activities of the Dominion. Mrs Szekany, who accompanied him, is a former Auckland girl who is visiting her home town after an absence of more than 10 years. She is a daughter of the late Mr W. J. Ralph, of Auckland, and has lived in Hungary, Austria, France, England, and other countries since leaving New Zealand.

A visitor to the Royal Victoria Dock, London, recently would have been surprised at the sight of two half-ton hogsheads of New Zealand tobacco being delivered from a warehouse into a lorry for distribution to factories. Small experimental packages have in the past been received from Australia and New Zealand, but these deliveries were among the earliest commercial shipments of tobacco from New Zealand. For the first time more than one half of the stock of tobacco held at the present time in bond at the Port of London Authority dock warehouses is of Empire origin. Empire growers have made consistent efforts to improve the quality of the leaf and from a small beginning the percentage of Empire tobacco has steadily expanded. Regular supplies are received from Africa, Borneo, Burma, Canada, Cyprus, India and Jamaica. Australia and New Zealand are also represented by occasional shipments.