SUNDAY OUTING.
POSTPONEMENT MADE. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 16. The opening of New Zealand’s first Physical Fitness Week, that arranged by New Plymouth organisations, will not be attended by pupils of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School, because it "falls on Sunday. Praised by the Minister of Internal Affairs' (Hon. AV. E. Parry), one of ■ the attractions of the fitness campaign will be a mountain day next Sunday. Arrangements were complete yesterday ■ for the transport of 500 persons to i Mount Egmont, . including 1.50 pupils . of the Girls’ High School. A protest . by an Anglican clergyman published in the Press to-day, however, resulted in ; the cancellation of the arrangements by the principal of the school (Miss D. JN. Allan).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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121SUNDAY OUTING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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