LOVELOCK’S VIEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 6

LOVELOCK’S VIEWS

PHYSICAL EDUCATION > SCHEME FOR DOMINIONESTABLISHMENT OF' SCHOOL 1 Ter Press Asuocialiun | WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. "My impressions of the Dominion.” said Lovelock on his return this morning from the south, "are impressions of fatigue, but, seriously, [ have found my native land a delightful country full of possibilities, physical and cultural." Touching upon physical education he said he believed a scheme founded upon sane lines would have a beneficial result in the Dominion. For years there had been a movement in England to form a centre of physical education at the Oxford University and marked interest was now being taken in the subject. Lovelock thought the establishment of such a school in this country, attached preferably to a training college where lhe principles of physical education could be taught and the masters o£ the subject then spread through the schools of New Zealand, would be a splendid thing. If such a scheme ever did come to fruition, he considered, il would be desirable, even essentia], for teachers of physical education to have a grounding in medicine. It was difficult to divorce one from the other. He realised that the establishment of lhe school in a particular centre might, raise parochial barriers hut. this seemed to be something almost inseparable from the scheme. "But there is room undoubtedly in New Zealand for the development of physical education.'' he added.