FORCES’ PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27638, 20 April 1955, Page 7

FORCES’ PHYSICAL EDUCATION

COMBINED COURSE FOR INSTRUCTORS

For the first time In New Zealand, physical education trainees from the three armed services are combining for instruction in a course which opened at Wigram this week and will continue until September. The 15 men to be trained as instructors will learn all aspects of the work from gymnastics and sports to physiology and survival methods.

The course is under the direction of Flight Lieutenant P. F. Robertson, staff oflßcer for physical education and recreational training of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, witluFlying Officer K. O. Plunkett as his deputy. The three instructors are drawn from each of the services. Chief Petty Officer F. G. Heath entered in the Royal Navy’s Physical Training School at Portsmouth in 1938 and served in the Royal Navy until 1948, enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1950, and is now in charge of physical training at H.M.N.Z.S. Tamald. Warrant Officer II J. Page entered the British Army School of Physical Training at Aidershot in 1934, was attached to the New Zealand Army in 1949, and enlisted in it last year. He is senior physical training instructor at Walouru. Sergeant L. P. Restall trained in the Royal Air Force School of Physical Training, served as an instructor in Britain for five years, and joined the R.N.Z.A.F. in jHe.fe now senior instructor at Wigram.