WORK COMPLETED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 45, 2 December 1939, Page 4

WORK COMPLETED.

A.C.E. TUTOR IN DISTRICT. APPRECIATION OF SERVICE. The hope that the Association of Country Education would be supplied with sufficient funds to enable it to continue with its work in the Ashburton County next year was expressed at a meeting in Asliburton yesterday of delegates of many Women’s Institutes and branches of the Women’s Division and the advisary committee of the Association. All representatives spoke highly of the service they had received and the benefit derived fijpm 'the lectures and classes.

The organiser (Miss V. ’MacMillan) advised delegates that- the lines of reorganisation necessitated by the termination of the Carnegie grants to the Association had not yet been determined, and that for the present she was unable to give the meeting any information concerning the prospects of securing. a tutor for 1940. It was decided to hold a further meeting during February when it was hoped that a programme embodying the desired activities might be drawn up.

Tho meeting, which was presided over by the chairwoman of the Advisory Committee (Mrs F. Curtis) congratulated the tutor (Miss It. Robins) following the presentation of her report on her nine months’ activities in the district. This report showed that 21 Women’s Institutes and five branches of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union had each received four lecture-demonstrations, while a number of single lectures had also been given to Women’s Institute groups and other bodies. The greatest demand had been for lectures on nutritional subjects, especially those relating to home-meal-planning and the best ways of cooking and serving the various foods. Housecraft and interior decoration lectures, had also been popular. Nine classes for studying practical courses had also been held. The total attendance at all these meetings had been 3472 women and the amount paid to the Association in the way of fees for classes and lectures was £76 7s 6d. The office and work room established in Ashburton had proved to be of the greatest help. Besides visitors to the office after all meetings, there had always been many members who approached the tutor with questions, and in addition' 356 inquiries were answered by telephone and 122 by letter. Miss MacMillan thanked Mrs Curtis, on behalf of the--Association, for her help in sponsoring the movement for tho benefit of the women of Mid-Can-terbury.