LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Editor does not hold himself responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents. Sib,— We have a Young Men's Improvement Society, of some kind; we toe a Debating Society; wa have an Atbea&u%a^— « a Qarrick Club ; of all these Napier iisaa I. boast. Bat where are her cricket . clubs IP archery clubs ? .-Vowing clubs? gymnasium? Not a sfgn of any. Cricket has been dead for some time ; the calisthenic is no more. Not a shadow of " Muscular Christianity " anywhere;. What ,-are| we coming to, young men of this ( island? Why not get up a rowing club "? surely a. or'ew can be found in JSTkpier ; then iare^ gatta,. some time in March or April. . Any- 4 thing iot healthy excitement and mption -uof some kind,-— anything but this fearful, stagnation of muscle. Somebodjr' do . somethinjg to start something, .and save every young man in the place from! be- .: coming, yours triily, . .i • I ' ' ■ ...■"' -^ dossil. •
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1118, 14 January 1870, Page 2
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156LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1118, 14 January 1870, Page 2
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