MAKING BEST USE OF LEISURE

Southland Times, Issue 23678, 29 November 1938, Page 6

MAKING BEST USE OF LEISURE

WORK OF PHYSICAL WELFARE OFFICER SOUTHLAND PLAYING AREAS PRAISED Ah effort to show people how to make the best use of their spare time was how Mr C. R. Bach, Government physical welfare officer, who is accompanying the’ Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) on a visit to Southland, described the ami of the Government in its physical health campaign. Mr Bach, has made a tour of the recreation facilities within a radius of 30 or 40 miles from Invercargill except in the south where his arc was narrowed by the coast, and in an interview with The Southland Times last night he said that the playing areas in most of the small communities he had seen in Southland were excellent There were two suggestions he would make to bring the province into line with the most advanced centres of physical training in the world. One was the introduction of community centres on the edge of park lands, in industrial areas in particular, and the other was the employment of a fulltime physical education expert to coach, guide and organize physical welfare activities in general. Mr Bach is a New Zealander and gave up his employment as a school master to go to Los Angeles to train as a physical education officer. He returned to New Zealand in 1930 after graduating bachelor of science In physical education at the University of Southern California. He is also a fellow of the British Association of Physical Training. Mr Bach has been engaged on his present survey since August.