IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26545, 21 August 1947, Page 11

IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY

PHYSICAL EDUCATION PRESENTATION IN TOWN HALL The Town Hall was filled by an enthusiastic audience last night to witness a demonstration of physical education organised by the Otago barnch of the Physical Education Society, which proved to be both impressive and entertaining. A wide variety of work was presented, ranging from the wellknown press-ups and bicycling exercises, through training for athletics Rugby, boxing, and fencing, to interpretative dances. Ten pupils of the Henley Primary School, of an average age of nine, amazed the audience with their agility, skill, and control in tumbling and difficult feats such as handstands, followed by walking backward on their hands. Their' work culminated in an effective tableau, and the trainer deserved the highest commendation. Training for Sports Training for special sports included a demonstration of Rugby practice by the pupils of King’s High School, with passing, tackling, scrummaging, and Line-out work. Pupils from John McGlashan College showed training methods for all branches of athletics fencing practice was demonstrated by Columba College, students and pupils of the Christian Brothers’ School presented a scientific boxing demonstration. ;The most ambitious work of the evening was by members of'the Dunedin Dance Group in their dances interpreting a waltz by Chopin and da Falla’s well-known Ritual Fire Dance. Although perhaps their endeavours fell short of the work, the effort was well worth while, and showed how physical education could be elevated to an exercise of the mind Third-year students of physical education at the Dunedin Teachers’ Train - ing College performed two graceful dances, the first a Maori stick game wth. a Native chant, and the second a fifteenth-century Spanish GalliaFd The Programme The following is a list of the groups, together’ With their items and trainers to whom great credit is due: —Macandrew Intermediate pupils, folk dancing Miss S. Foster; John McGlashan pupils, training for athletics, Mr R. Pilling; Henley Primary School pupils, tumbling and agility work, Mr R. Boraman; Dunedin North Intermediate pupils, general exercises with horse and bar, Miss M. Blackledge; Y.W.C.A class, recreational gymnastics. Miss H Frayne; Christian Brothers' pupils, boxing, Mr A. Goodman; Training College women students, Maori Stick game and Spanish dance, Mrs S. McLean; St. Hilda’s pupils, square dances, Misses M. Wallace and J Fraser; King’s High School pupils, Rugby training, Mr W. R. Mayhew: Otago Girls’ High School pupils, agility and apparatus work. Misses Davies and Sparrow; Columba College pupils, fencing, Miss Gourley; Otago Boys’ High School pupils, agility and apparatus work, Mr T. D. Duffy; Dunedin Dance Group interpretative dances, Mrs Mayhew.