JOB FOR YOUTH
One of the representatives of ?sport3 organisations present at the meeting in the Town Hall Council Chamber last night to form an organising comlnittee to control Fitness Week in Wellington in February stated today that hfe and others had come away from the ing feeling that it would be .a* good plan for the organising committee to set up a committee of younger people as direct representatives of Tthose actively participating in outdoor activities, or enlist their services irksome particular way. x.
"Practically all those present at the meeting last night," he said, >.''were the older people. It is clairSed, I know, that there is a tendency in-some circles for younger people not tcr wish to undertake responsibilities. $ That is one reason why I think they should if possible, be brought actively into the organisation of the scheme $ Another reason is that if the leading participants of the outdoor activities of youth are given a definite place.: ther« would be created, I think, a gyeate" interest m the campaign among theij fellows. Personally, lam sule thj young people will come into liis if .they, .know .the^ssei'Vi^sr-are-4anted and there is
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 4
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192JOB FOR YOUTH Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 4
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