WELFARE AND TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 124, 22 November 1923, Page 6

WELFARE AND TENNIS

A practical business idea that, on the surface, should commend itself to business men is a proposal made at the Lawn Tennis Association meeting, held last evening, that the life-membership idea should be extended in order to enable employers' to provide facilities for their employees to play tennis at the great' courts to be established at Miramar. The value of tennis and similar healthful open-air games in keeping up the physical tone of those who play them has been recognised already as a sound business proposition by employers in Great Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. It is reflected, according to recorded tabulated experience, in the benefits accruing from increased efficiency and improved outlook on the part of those employees who participate in such healthy recreation, and thus has taken on the aspect of a sound'business investment. Wellington might do much in improving existing good relations between employers and employed by showing to the rest of the Dominion how welfare and open-air recreation can be associated to the physical advantage of the young people, and, probably, to the financial benefit in the long run of all who render help of the kind indicated in the life-mem-bership scheme as outlined at the association's meeting by Mr. Peacock.