WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22600, 4 January 1939, Page 4

WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

——* SUMMER CAMP AT NELSON (HUM kSIOCIATIOB TIMOIUI.) NELSON, January 3. The seventeenth annual summer school of the Workers? Educational Association of the Canterbury 'N?Jversity district is being bhjd at j[elson College. One hundred students are attending. subjects are causing mucjy/interest, and keen A'number oi. small informal discussion groups are meeting regularly. ■ Dr. H. E. Field, Professor of Education at Canterbury College, is director. The staff comprises Messrs J. A. Brailsford (Otago), A. J. Campbell (Christchurch), Dr. G. Jobberns (Canterbury College), Messrs J. Johnson (Canterbury), and R. Winterboum (Canterbury), and two members ot the Nelson College staff, Messrs W. H. Allen and J. W. Russell, also lectured. The governors of Nelson College gave the use of the college buildings. Many excursions have been arranged. Places of interest which the party visited included the apple orchards and tobacco farm at Riwaka. Some climbed Dun Mountain. Almost all visited the Cawthron Institute, where the director (Sir Theodore Rigg) and the staff explained the research work.

With a well-balanced programme ot study carried out in the beautiful buildings and surroundings of Nelson. College, the students, from all parts of New Zealand, are having a happy and profitable time.