The opinion that one of the first problems facing the proposed National Council of Sport was that of absorbing the large number of youths, mostly between the ages of 16 and 21, who have left school and are to be seen "hanging r^und" the city streets at night, was expressed by the president of the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association , (Mr. F. G. Dunn) at a meeting of the Council (states the "Press"). Reporting on the recent meeting of sports, bodies in Wellington to' discuss the formation of a National Council of Sport, Mr. Punn said (hat the question of engaging these' 'youths in' some form of recreation was one ■of the' biggest•■ prob--lems-td be considered by- the council.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 4
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