PHYSICAL FITNESS
THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN Received Feb. ,9 9.30 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 9. The former Middlesex cricketer, Lord Aberdare, will become chairman of the National Advisory Council under the Government’s new physical fitness scheme. Mr. Oliver Stanley, making an announcement in the House of Commons, described the duties of the council as partly scientific, but perhaps the most important work would be propaganda and publicity. The council would consist of 30 and it would establish and work through local committees. The scheme was not intended to deal with nutrition, but it would be complementary to the Government’s measures to improve nutrition. He admitted that there were "black spots” in the country but the idea that the great mass of .people in Britain were so underfed that they were unable to derive profit from physical training was grotesque.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 7
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