WOMEN'S INSTITUTE.
GREAT GROWTH OF -MOVEMENT. BRANCH FORMED IN SAMOA. One of the voluntary organisers of the Women's Institute, Miss A. M. Stops, #f England, arrived at Auckland by the Tola* thi» morning. She has been •pending leveral months with Lady KdurdMn, wife of General Sir George Siditrdson, Administrator of Samoa.
During her stay at Apia Miss Stops took the opportunity of forming a branch of the institute there. "The branch has started with forty members, bnt it will soon grow," remarked Miss Stops, who said that she thought the prpapects for the success of the movement in Bamoa were very bright. It is the first branch formed in the Western Pacific.
Since its inception during the early' itages of the war, the Women's Institute has made wonderful progress, not only in England, where to-day there are over 4000 branches, but also in the most outlying parts of the Empire. In New Zealand there are some twenty-five branches, with Miss Jerome Spencer, of Rissington, Hastings, as head of the ttovement. Originally formed to foster Home production, the institute is nonpolitical and non-sectarian. During her stay in New Zealand Miss visit as many of the branches Mpouible.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 282, 29 November 1927, Page 11
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