The visit to his homeland by Jack Lovelock. New Zealand's most famous track athlete, aroused great enthusiasm, and wherever he appeared to give exhibition runs the attendances were excellent. Lovelock gave we New Zealanders much good advice—good if it is assimilated! But just how genuine is the desire for New Zealanders to improve—physically? It may not be a typical example, but on asking twelve different persons if they had been doing the excelent physical exercises broadcast by Station 2YA, the answers were all in the negative, although the reasons for not doing the exercises were as far apart as the Poles. Sufficient was it that a dozen people, chosen haphazardly, didn't see fit to devote ten or twelve minutes a day to improve their physical make-up. Was Lovelock on the right track when he emphasised the enthusiasm of the Youth of the European nations who have to thank compulsory training for their splendid physique?

But New Zealanders, like their kin in the Old Land, take sport haphazardly—in other words, purely as a recreation. Only a very small percentage of an enormous sport-loving community take the trouble to make any attempt to specialise or to excel.