W.E.A. COURSES.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20789, 24 February 1933, Page 4

W.E.A. COURSES.

WORK FOR THE CQMJNG SESSION. The District Council of the Workers' Educational Association met on Wednesday evening, Mr S. Schoflcld presiding in the absence of Mr 11. IX Acland. The official opening pf the session was fixed for March 18, when prominent educationists will speak. The- secretary, reporting on the Timaru Summer School, stated that the enrolments wcro 158. This was a rocord for the 12 summer schools bo far held. The subjects for the classes will be public speaking, psychology, esperanto, modern drama, the governance of New Zealand, economics, international relations, literature, horticulture, theory of music, and folk dancing. Lectures will bo arranged every Saturday evening during the session for the inmates of Paparua. The classes for the other districts are in New Brighton, currency and banking; Kaiapoi, public speaking; Oxford, sociology; Hangiora, general social problems; Timaru, economics and literature; Islington, public speaking and drama. In the rural areas the box scheme and the travelling library will operate. With tho co-operation of tho Broadcasting Board, two lectures will bo given weekly (Mondays and Fridays; bovr the air by Workers' Educational Association lecturers. A series Qf public lectures will be given on Saturday evenings in the Workers' Educational, Association rooms. Thp council accepted tho recommendation of the Bursary Committee that Mr Keith Allen, of Longfellow street, Sydenham, should be the Workers' Educational Association bursar for this year. This bursary permits the successful applicant to undertake a degree course at Canterbury College. Tho first Workers' Educational Association bursar for New Zealand was Mr J. O. Shearer, who has recently been appointed lecturer in economics at Otago University, On tne advice of the executive the council decided to appeal to tho Doininioi* Council to organiso an annual qratorical contest between Workers' Educational Association students from. t)to four centres, on similar lines to tho annual university contest. The secretary was instructed to investigate tho possibilities pf forming tutorial classes in Ashburton and CJeraldine.