NEED FOR LEADERS

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3663, 3 February 1940, Page 7

NEED FOR LEADERS

PHYSICAL WELFARE TRAINING PROGRESS IN THE WAIKATO Reports of the activities of the Area Recreation Officers of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Branch operating in the Waikato, Wellington and Southland areas show that the system of training leaders who will in their turn act as a network of local instructors, extending all over their districts, has been launched thoroughly. The Waikato area is a good sample of what is being done. The area was divided up into five districts, and potential leaders for physical welfare and recreation have been recruited partly as individuals interested in the work and partly as representatives of various organisations. Their training will be as thorough as the Area Instructors, Mr Lance Cross and Miss Rona Stephenson, both widely experienced in this type of work, can make it. Recreational games, modern physical education methods, dancing and general keep fit work are being taught. The local interest shown in these activities was recently evidenced at a sports carnival given by the Morrinsville Men's Leaders Class. Gymnastics, indoor basketball, fencing matches and a dance made up the bulk of the programme, and no fewer than five hundred and seventy people paid for admission. In all, the Waikato people have potential leaders running into hundreds under training in their area.