the arts of equilibrium and gyration. 4:

Jack Bonham, Edgar Sutton and Jim McComish perform gymnastics in Parnell Park, Auckland.

“Tumbling and balancing satisfy an instinct to exercise the body. They develop the qualities of grace, poise, carriage and co ordination of mind and muscle that make the fluent movements of the dancer or gymnast a poem of motion. The advantage of this form of exercise is that no apparautus is necessary and the gymnasia infinitely variable from the confiines of room to the limitless freedom of the outdoors”