HEALTH AND PHYSIQUE.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1425, 10 November 1923, Page 2

HEALTH AND PHYSIQUE.

DUE TO FOOD AND FRESH AIR

New Zealanders are proud o£ their physique, and, no doubt, it compares very favourably with the average of other countries. But it would be a miracle if it did not. We have advantages which few 'lands possess. We have no slums in the European sense of the word, none of those festering plague spots which are to be found in many a British or Continental town. Our children spend much of their lives in the open. Poverty is not unknown, but it is neither so widespread nor so acute as it is in most other places. The ordinary New Zealander grows into maturity with abundance of food and fresh air. Such being the case, it is quite natural that he should be of a healthier type than one reared in a gloomy industrial centre in the Black Country or in the East End of London. The contrast in the war between a battalion of New Zealanders and one, say, from the English Midlands was striking. We have still, however, a long way to go before we can boast an A 1 class population, but the Health Weeks in the Dominion should result in considerable improvement in many respects as far as our health is concerned—that is if the general public pay heed to what the authorities on the subjects treated tell them. —Wairarapa Daily Times.