INTERESTING TOUR.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10826, 24 March 1932, Page 2

INTERESTING TOUR.

MISS VIOLET MACMILLAN IN LONDON. Miss Violet A. M. Macmillan, of the Home Science Service Department Otago University Extension Staff, is on tour to make a study of extension methods and organisation (says the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times). During her recent journeys in the United Slates and Canada she visited many typical universities in the West, Middle West, South and North West, also in Ontario and Toronto. She remained at Berkeley for a fortnight,and at Wash iugton she saw the State Department of Agriculture and the State Bureau for the study of home economics. Every facility was accorded her to become acquainted with anything that she considered would bo useful from the New Zealand viewpoint. She is collecting a great deal of matter. While in Toronto Miss Macmillan met Miss Nancy Aslin, who is studying home economy household science, at the same time being assistant-lec-turer for a period of IS mouths. At the International House, Columbia University, New York, she met Miss Elizabeth Noise Todhunter (Christchurch and Otago), who is president of the British group of students there and who is working with Dr Sharman.

During her travels Miss Macmillan was made known to interesting and prominent people connected with university curriculum. Two months are to be devoted to the Mother Country and four months to Scandinavian countries. Miss Macmillan was advised in the United States that she would find a. visit to Finland of particular value. She is interviewing the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, in London this week, as well as the Board of Education, and the leaders of the women’s institutes with the view to making up .her travel chart for Great Britain in order to see all that is being done in her special section of the university.

The High Commissioner has provided her with useful introductions, in addition to which she was given a number by the New Zealand University authorities. After Scandinavia, Miss Macmillan hopes to work down through Italy to Czechoslovakia and other continental centres of learning. The final port of embarkation for New Zealand is not yet settled, but she will be in the Dominion by the end of September; she has only just reached Crosby Hall, London, from America and there are many details yet to be arranged. In London a student whom she met is Miss E. Gregory, who is at London University taking biochemistry, and another one is Miss Carol West-Wat-son (Christchurch) who is in residence at Crosby Hall. Miss Violet Macmillan is the younger daughter of the Hon. C. E. and Mrs Macmillan.