AUSTRALIAN MEN.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19816, 21 February 1936, Page 12

AUSTRALIAN MEN.

THEIR WONDERFUL PHYSIQUE. ENGLISHMAN IS AMAZED. ”1 think the average Australian man is 25 per cent, better developed physically, than the Englishman.”! said Mr Miles Mander, the English! director of the film, “The Flying Doc- 1 tor,” in Sydney. “I was amazed at Lie Bondi surf ! carnival last week to see so many magnificent physical specimens," added Mr Mander. “This outdoor life of yours is remarkable, and when your life-savers appear on the beaches in England next year they will create a sensation. Englishmen “Soft.” “Englishmen are inclined to go .>oft, physically. Your men will show them something about physical fitness. I would like your life-savers to take part in a Coronation march.” I Mr Mander said that, as a politic- ' ian and member of the British Labour I Party, he was keenly interested in the physique of the masses of the people. ! England generally had little idea of j the splendid manhood of this Commonwealth, and could learn a lesson from it. "In England we have not the sea- ! bathing complex that you have here, i W e do not realise its great benefits, j We have no surf clubs, and perhaps j we don t require them in the sense ! you do, but I think they should be! established, with improved physical development as the principal aim.” \ “Picnic” in United States. “If your husky life-savers go to America they are going to i.... <• a great picnic,” said Mr Charles Farrell, star of “The Flying Doctor.” j “Aussies are popular over there. I have never seen anything like that , show at Bondi/*