“MAKE BRITONS FIT”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23108, 6 February 1937, Page 13

“MAKE BRITONS FIT”

GOVERNMENT'S CAMPAIGN OUTLINED IN WHITE PAPER LONDON, Feb. 4. (Received at 7.30 p.m.) How the Government will imple ment its "Make Britons Fit" campaign is outlined in a White Paper The scheme provides for the im mediate establishment of national advisory councils and a national college of physical training for instructors. It is not intended to build up a completely new compulsory system of training for young Britons, but by systems of grants to utilise the existing machinery through the agency of local authorities anri national voluntary organisation? The estimated expenditure o< £2,000,000 will be spread over threi years, after which the cost will be £150,000 annually. A memorandum states: " Compulsion is wholly alien to the national temper and tradition The Government's aim is not to ensure that every child achieves a certain standard of physical fitness but to inculcate a wider realisation that physical fitness plays a vital pari in promoting a healthy mind ami human happiness."