WOMEN’S INSTITUTES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 97, 18 January 1933, Page 5

WOMEN’S INSTITUTES

Home Science Course Started

One of the objects of the Women’s Institutes, as stated in their constitution, is “to make provision for the fuller education of country women and to give instruction and training in all branches of agriculture, rural handcraft, domestic science, hygiene and social welfare." Much has already been done in this direction, chiefly by individual institutes, hut it is realised that the time has now come when the work must be carried out on a systematic basis and the best teachers available obtained if the full object of the movement is to be attained.

“For home and country” is the institute slogan, and so, as a start, arrangements have been completed for courses in instruction in home science. Miss Violet McMillan is in charge of this section of the work and will operate throughout the Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke’s Bay provinces. She expects to hold a meeting in connection with the scheme early in February at Pahiatua. This course should have very valuable results, not only to the ■Women’s Institute movement, but to the districts generally, and will probably be further extended in the near future.

Miss McMillan has also been appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture to act as its representative on the Dominion Federation Executive of Women’s Institutes.