NATIONAL RECREATION

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4221, 8 December 1939, Page 7

NATIONAL RECREATION

WHAT SPORTS BODIES CAN DO. BY UNITED ACTION. The Mayor of Napier was recently reported as stating that too many bodies in his area were fixing dates and then finding that they were clashing with the fixtures of other organisations. What was needed was some co-ordination of effort. An development in this connection/ and one which could well be commended to the attention of other provinces, is the recent formation of a Southland Provincial Council of Sport. The necessary approaches and preliminary organisation were carried out by the Area Recreation Officer of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Branch. Already the Council has manifested its presence in a no uncertain way. Not Merely has it avoided the clashing of dates, but it has acted as a medium for the arrangement of joint Centennial sports fixtures. It has also taken in hand a scheme for the publication of lists of defaulters in subscriptions, a measure which has been found very necessary in other centres. It is not, of course, by any ,<eans the first demonstration of co-ordina-tion amongst sports bodies. The Pioneer Sports Club in Christchurch, to which are affiliated nearly all the

Canterbury sporting bodies and which maintains its own club rooms, is a splendid example of what can be achieved.

The Physical Welfare and Recreation branch intends to sponsor similar developments in other areas, wherever practicable.