BETTER PHYSIQUE
AUSTRALIAN YOUTH OF TO-DAY.
SYDNEY, October 19. Professor Harvey Sutton, Director of the. School of Public Health a* Sydney University, announced the Australian race was becoming toller and heavier. Australian children were growing faster than they did twenty years ago. He said that at the age of fifteen a boy was now two and a-half inches taller and a stone heavier than a boy was at that age in 1914. A girl of 15 now is one inch taller and ten pounds heavier than a girl of 15 years in 1914.
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Grey River Argus, 21 October 1943, Page 2
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