COLONIAL PHYSIQUE.
"We all know tint the colonial youth is averagely superior in. physique to the .Home-staying youth, for the reason which makes any stock bred in abundant pasture superior to the same stock bred under harsher conditions. The struggle for food' is less keen in Now Zealand than in En.g’and, and the air generally breathed by the average colonial is better than the air averagely breathed by a people of whom 5.0 per cent, livo "in large cities and 10 per cunt, in one lingo hive. In the United Kingdom itself' the difference in physical development between the .inhabitants of the smaller country towns and of tiie huge cities is obvious to every observer, and is constantly,, remarked !>V philosophers. Equally obvious is tho superior physical development of the colonial, whether New Zealand, Canadian, Australian;, or African. —Auckland “Herald.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2554, 15 July 1909, Page 7
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140COLONIAL PHYSIQUE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2554, 15 July 1909, Page 7
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