KEEP FIT MOVEMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 January 1939, Page 5

KEEP FIT MOVEMENT

ENGLISH LEADER IN DOMINION i I EXERCISING TO MUSIC fUnited Press Association 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. Miss Mildred Meredith-Jones, one of the leaders of England’s “keep fit” movement, governed by the Central Council of Physical Training and subsidised by the Government, arrived by the Awatea. She intends to investigate women’s physical work in the Dominion and may take up the “keep fit” movement here. For three years she was physical mistress at Notre Dame High School, Northampton, and following that instructed at Bishop Stortford Training College. The most outstanding development in the movement was the popularity of exercising to music. She says that older persons found music of great importance in maintaining their interest and relieving the tedium ol simple routine exercise.