Commission’s work examined
A two-session look at the work of the Human Rights Commission starts at the Workers Educational Association next Thursday, October 6, from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. The first session is an introduction to the Commission’s role and the second session, on October 13, will be an in-depth look at sexual harassment. The cost of the course is, $4.50. Food can be fun in the 80s is the name of a fourweek course starting next Wednesday, October 5. This will look at food choices and patterns, “health” food, additives, labelling, special nutritional needs, and consumer influence on food manufacture. The cost of this course is $6. It runs from 11 a.m. to noon each Wednesday. For . more details or bookings phone the SV.E.A. at 664-530 or call it 59 Gloucester Street. Maori unemployment Maori people and
groups needing information on employment related issues are asked to contact Mere Wallace, the T.A.G. fieldworker. T.A.G. contains the initials of three Maori people who formed a working party on unemployment in 1985 — Tahana Waretini, Amohaere Houkamau, and George Kahi. Mere is at the Polynesian Performing Arts premises at 162 Lichfield St, phone 792-881, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Mondays and Thursdays she is at the Maori Resource Centre at Rehua Marae, phone 557-780. Taitokerau whanau A hui has been called for all those descended from the tribes, hapu, and whanau of the North Taitokerau this Thursday, September 29. This will be at the Department of Maori Affairs in Peterborough Street starting at 7 p.m. Those interested can contact Gina Groves at
525-104 or Adrienne Stephens at 524-430. South African film “Mama, I’m Crying,” a 1987 film from South Africa, movingly shows the lives of black and white women there, as well as the situation of youth in. Soweto. It has won several international awards. On Wednesday, September 28, at 7.30 p.m. the film will be shown at the Young Women’s Christian Association, 85 Bealey Ave. All friends are warmly invited. The screening has been arranged jointly by the United Nations Association and the Y.W.C.A. Church women Church Women United in Aotearoa/New Zealand meet for a coffee morning this Wednesday, September. 28. The Reverend Barbara Stephens, the director of Christian World Service, will be the guest speaker. The theme of the meeting
will be victims of injustice. As usual there will be a short devotional service before the talk and afterwards, a sales tables. .■ The meeting starts at 10 a.m. at the Oxford Terrace Baptist Lounge. All Christian women are invited. Plains FM Plains FM community radio station broadcaste from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays, and from 5 p.m., to midnight at the week-ends. Many community groups use the station, writing and presenting their own material.
Any groups or individuals interested in broadcasting their own shows or wanting to get something across to greater Christchurch can contact Sarah Ayton at 657-997 or write to P. O. Box 22 297, Christchurch. A community noticeboard service every night at 6 p.m. is available for anyone to use. Compiled by GLENYS WALKER. Items for this column should reach this office at least one week before publication date. Send to Glenys Walker, “Making It Happen,” Home and People Page, “The Press,” Private Bag, Christchurch.
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