LONDON’S ‘RIVIERA’

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 13

LONDON’S ‘RIVIERA’

Shilling-a-Week Keep Them Fit SOCIAL EXPERIMENT (From Our Special Correspondent). (By Air Mail). ' LONDON, March 28. London’s “Shilling Riviera,’’ which is admired by social workers in all parts of the world, will be a year old on May 3. The 360 families who for a shilling a week enjoy all the sports and recreations of a first-close resort at the Pioneer Health Centre s “palaeo of glass’’ are enthusiastic about its benefits. Dozens of women between 40 and 00 have learned to high-dive in the beautiful 73ft. pool under the great glass roof. Mrs Bronker (52), with five children and one grandchild, dives .Jit. and swims five lengths, though she had never been in the water before joining the centre. She has reduced her weight from 12 to 9 stone in a few months and feels like “starting life all over again.” Her grandchild was playing in the airy nursery, her boy of 13 ami <drl of 10 were racing in the pool, and she was having tea with another daughter at one of the pretty “ seaside” tables at the water’s edge, lea costs Id a cup, and delicious home-made dainties are Id each. Investigators come from all parts oi America and the Continent to talk with the research workers and doctors at the Centre and to examine the remarkable family records. The remarkable feature is that a family, a whole family and nothing but a family may apply for membership. The older members are given “health overhauls” once a year, the children from once a week to once a month. Ihe emphasis is on keeping so fit that in time illness will be stamped out altogether.