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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 October 1922, Page 2

Gratification (it the advance of amateqr athletic sport ,in the schools is expressed in the minimal report-; of the Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. "The Wellington Schools’ Association is still proving itself to bo a Jive and up-to-date body," states the report, “and their meeting this year was, in view of the number of entries received, easily a record. It will, however, always he hard to make a meeting a financial success unless it is held on a Saturday. Another movement which is a step in the right direction is the formation of a Secondary Schools A.A. Association, and it is proposed to hold this meeting in .November. It behoves all members of the centre to do their utmost to help on both these associations, as it is to the junior members to whom we must look for future champions.” Swimming as a means of giving health was remarked upon by Dr W. E. Herbert in the coarse of his Ked Cross health lecture at Wellington. “In ray opinion,” he said, “the facilities offered in Wellingtf|p in this respect are woe fully inadequate. A large up-to-date tepid salt-water hath is, 1 maintain, an urgent health necessity, for 1 know of no way in which a larger section of the population can gel a refreshing exercise in as short a time as in this way. It has been urged that such could never pay, but I would suggest that given adequate accommodation (a small bath would never pay), good management, and a proper appreciation of its health value, it I could hardly fail to pay.” j