WOMEN'S INSTITUTES.
CENTRALISED CONTROL ISSUE
The bi-annual council meeting of the Auckland District Federation of Women's Institutes was held this morning. The president, Mrs. S. Phillips, of Wharepapa, •welcomed the delegates. Mrs. Patterson, of Masterton, the Dominion president, spoke of the institute work and its effect on the national ideals. M"rs. IS. Phillips presented her annual report and said the Auckland federation would be divided into three parts, with one centre at Dargaville, another at Whangarei and the present Auckland one, all under the new provincial council. Nineteen new institutes had been formed during the last six months and five groups established. The great question for the coming Dominion federation wae one of centralisation or decentralisation. It had been the experience of nearly every great Dominion organisation that the; question of centralising its government in Wellington was the rocK on which it came to grief. Centralisation became autocratic, but the democratic way was decentralisation of control, especially with our geographical configuration. Mesdames Irwin, Lewis and Philwell also j presented reports. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 128, 1 June 1934, Page 11
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