DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14711, 28 July 1921, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

Writing on “Who’s Who at the Imperial Conference,” the Lonfl Tribute don correspondent of to Sydney Sun says:— rWr Massey. "The big and bluff Mr Massey Is a popular figure here. It has taken people time to find out his fine qualities, but his three visits in three years have enabled them to do so. The only member of the Empire Council who is not a lawyer—except the one who is a maharajah—Mr Massey is bluntly a man of the soil, with the farmer’s plain outlook. Me is a veteran, 65 years of age, and his speeches are always practical. A big question worries him intensely, for no man is more anxious to do right. He makes no bones about seeking the advice of experienced leaders here; Mr Balfour and Mr Lloyd George are his firm friends. There is no idea of lonehand playing about, him. Perhaps that is where time will record a mistake. But in the meantime it is unquestionably in accord with the opinion of New Zealand, the most British community in the world, and the one most loyal to old conceptions of the Empire. Eager to show its guests the utmost hospitality, the British Government sent to Mr Massey tickets for a box at the Derby, and provided a line car for his transport. U was characteristic of the man that he refused to go. ‘New Zealand did not send me here to see tlie Derby,’ he said, and the protestations of others were of no avail.” “I have watched the passing crowds at the busiest The Necessity street corners of for Auckland, WclPhysical Training, lington, Christchurch and Dunedin. I have observed them, as a whole and individually, very carefully, and I could not do other than estimate that only 2 per cent, of those who passed carried themselves properly creel. The other US per cent, were almost deformed. Hunched shoulders, heads poked forward, hands in pockets, feet dragging. chests seldom thrown out, a careless, stumbling stride —these arc the outstanding features of the average New Zealander’s poise when on Ihe street.” This statement was made by Mr 11. LongwoiTh, chief physical training instructor, when addressing' an assembly of school I radices in Palmerston North (stales the Manawatu Standard). Properly applied, lie said, physical training and certain recognised games would do much to make the ave-

rase of properly-developed persons higher. It would never do to allow this sort of thing to continue. Greater attention should be paid to all departments of physical training in the schools. Healthy, well-deported children make a bigger, better nation.