OTAGO AREA OFFICER

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 239, 4 July 1940, Page 4

OTAGO AREA OFFICER

Woman To Fill Physical

Welfare Post

Miss Mary Martin, Auckland, has been appointed area officer for Otago under the Physical Welfare and Recreation Act, 1937. In making this announcement yesterday, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, said that Miss Martin, who would commence her duties tomorrow in Dunedin, where she would be permanently located, was a young woman of high qualifications for her work from which much success could be expected.

Miss Martin was born in Auckland and educated at the Wellington Girls College, from which she emerged with an excellent record, having held the athletic championship for two years. She was also captain of the school basketball team, a member of its tennis team, and the winner of the Anna P. Stout Cup. Miss Martin was also secretary of the Auckland University Basketball Club, a member of the Auckland provincial and New Zealand representative basketball teams and member of the New Zealand basketball team which toured Australia. She was awarded the New Zealand and the Auckland University Blue for basketball and was a member of the team which won the Athenaeum Cup for debating at Auckland. Miss Martin was actively associated with the Students’ Executive of the Auckland Training College, and the Students’ Association Executive of tlie Auckland University College. In 193034 she had much good work to her credit in connexion with the girls’ club of the Y.W.C.A., Wellington. During the last 18 months Miss Martin had been teaching at a Native school at Pukehina and, while there, organized the “keep fit” classes and basketball clubs in the Bay of Plenty. The Minister said that area officers were now operating in the Auckland. Wellington, Christchurch, Otago, and Southland districts.