FITNESS CAMPAIGN
MINISTER'S COMMENT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “I feel' that we in New Zealand are on the verge of tremendous .development in the field of physical fitness. Therefore I am extremely pleased to be here,” declared the Hon. W. E. Parry, in welcoming competitors at the first separate national junior and women’s 1 athletic championships at Cai'law Park to-day. He congratulated the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association on its initiative. “JA has worked for the championships for''several years,” said the Minister. Young women of to-day realised that for them a physically fit body was jusit as important as for their brothers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19897, 27 March 1939, Page 7
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104FITNESS CAMPAIGN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19897, 27 March 1939, Page 7
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