Britain Plans to Make Her Sons Fit
NOTABLE PERSONNEL ON HEALTH COUNCIL. LEADERS OF SPORTS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrl*h t. LONDON, Feb. 12. Leaders of various national sports are included in the National Advisory Council under the Government’s new physical fitness scheme. Notable are the members of the House of Commons, Lord Burghiey and Mr Noel Baker, both former Olympic representatives, and Mr W. W, Wakefield, ex-captain of England at Rugby. There are also Mr S. F. Kous, secretary of the Football Association, Captain J. G. Paterson, director of physical training for the Industrial Welfare Society, and also commandant of the Duke of York’s camp. The women councillors include the tennis player Miss Dorothy Round, Miss Margaret Morris, principal of the Margaret Morris Dancing Institute, Miss Prunella Stack, leader of the Women’s Leaguo of Health and Beauty, and Lady Eleanor Keane, chairman of the N.tional Council of Girls' Clubs. Medical members include Lord Dawson of Penn, King George V's physician. Tho council numbers 30, in additiou to the chairman, Lord Aberdare, a former Middlesex cricketer. Tho remaining members represent social, education, and physical training movements throughout the country. FOOTBALL FOR GERMANS. BERLIN, Feb. 12. Au order issued to the Eleventh Army Corps at Hanover introduces Rugby football as one of the official games in the German Army.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 6
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