RECRUITING FOR HEALTH.
Why do more than thirty per cent, of the young men and women in this country avoid all organised sport and recreation? Inquiries show that this is largely due to reserve or psyeologieal resistance to 'the making of contacts for themselves, coupled with ignorance of what is offering. A Recreation Card scheme is therefore being* instituted by the Physical Welfare Branch and the Education author-
ities for the benefit of girls and youths leaving school. Numbers of these cards will be distributed to the schools during the next three weeks together with an explanatory circular. With the help of parent or teacher the pupil will be able to draw up a balanced programme of all-the-year-round sport and recreation.
This information will be placed at the disposal of the sporting and recreative organisations. Only schools in those districts in which Area Instructors of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Branch are already operating, namely the Waikato, Wellington and Southland. will be approached as personal supervision of the postscliool development of the scheme by these officers is desirable.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 5170, 24 November 1939, Page 1
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178RECRUITING FOR HEALTH. Manawatu Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 5170, 24 November 1939, Page 1
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