TOWNSWOMEN'S INSTITUTES.
One rather wonders at the new idea , to create townswomen's institutes on the lines of those village institutes for women, which have done such good work in England. The village institutes were created really to give lonely people the advantages that are possessed by their city cousins, for whom, meeting places, such as lectures, debating societies, arts and crafts schools are a commonplace. When we are informed, however, that after the institutes are confined as yet to villages of not more than 4000 souls, we see that there is work to be done by extending their usefulness. Towns of a larger population than this may well need some assistance in social life, and so are now being created guilds differing not very much from the institutes. The larger movement, anyway, shows that these institutions in the smaller settlements have proved a success.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 245, 16 October 1929, Page 11
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144TOWNSWOMEN'S INSTITUTES. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 245, 16 October 1929, Page 11
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