Development by Rowing.
To gain some idea of the growth and muscular development encouraged by conscientious rowing the New Plymouth Rowing Club has decided to take measurements of new members and compare them with measurements at the end of the season. At the official opening of the New Plymouth season speakers stressed the value of the sport as a healthy recreation, illustrating their points by quoting examples of comparatively puny youths developing into fine specimens of manhood. In" one speaker’s opinion there was no sport that exercised the same number of muscles.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1935, Page 12
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92Development by Rowing. Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1935, Page 12
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