PHYSICAL CULTURE
COURSE FOR UNEMPLOYED. AN EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, August 16. A number of unemployed men drawn from the specially depressed areas of north-east and north-west England, the Midlands, Scotland and South Wales have been undergoing a four months’ course of training in South London as instructors in physical culture under an experimental scheme conducted with the approval and financial assistance of the Ministry of Labour. It is intended to employ the men when proficient as leaders at junior instructional centres and elsewhere. In addition to walking six miles each day between the hostel and gymnasium, the men exercise actively for five hours in three sessions. Besides ordinary physical training the course includes 1 boxing, jiujitsu and gymnasium games. Twice a week the men attend lectures on anatomy, hygiene, physiology and elementary psychology. __ The men, whose ages range from 39 to 31, include unemployed miners, dockyard labourers, mechanics and draughtsmen.
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Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 7
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153PHYSICAL CULTURE Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 7
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