A NEW PLAN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11930, 23 January 1936, Page 2

A NEW PLAN

LEISURE HALL AT WIGAN

TRVIXG AX IDKA OF UTOI’IA

An Institute of Leisure is ti) be built by the Wigan, Kugland, educa- ; tion authority, which instead o£ , pooh-poohing such an out-of-the-way |

idea coming from their Director o' i Education IMr Leonard Missen), whole-heartedly promotes it for the \ benefit of Wigan’s young people.

How many there are now who da not know what to db with their leisure! In this institute, which might have come straight out of a modern Utopia, 500 boys and girls will learn how to make good use of their playtime. As the institute has to receive the approval of the Board of Education, and will be partly built with tbe aid of the Ministry of Labour, it will have its educational side. Sports and Games But there will be plenty of pla! to sugar the instructional pill, and boys and girls making ready to 8° out into the world and make good Wiganites will be encouraged to find

in it their own sports and gamesBoy Scouts and Girl Guides will fin l ! headquarters waiting here.

It is easy to see what sort of juvenile instruction classes will be ht re encouraged. Arts and crafts have • good name everywhere. We can drawing and design, woodwork, metalwork, embroidery, and dressmaking coming out of Wigans Leisure Hall, and its young peoples

leisure hours may make a new naniG for the town.

The leisure we delight in sweetens labour; it gives a new impetus to play. The Wigan experiment was warmly welcomed by the Carnegi® Trustees, who, in offering £SIOO I°' ward the cost, .declared that they regarded it as having constructional national value. ZZSBSi