WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 18094, 9 October 1922, Page 8

WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

UNIVERSITY TUTORIAL CLASSES. [Contributed by the Dunedin Branch, of the Workers' Educational Association.] OTAGO STATISTICS. The session’s work is now almost completed, and the statistics are beginning to come in. The year closes on October SI, and class secretaries are asked to forward roll books at once to the _ district secretary. The following figures will be of interest to all connected with the movement;— Milton Class.—Subject, ‘ Principles of Economics,’ 18 meetings; enrolments, 38 (15 women, 23 men); total attendances, 427; average attendance per lecture, 24; percentage, 63. Literature Glass, Otago University. Seventeen meetings; enrolments, 86 (73 women, 13 men); total attendances, 642; average attendance per lecture, 38; percentage, 44. , Green Island Class.— Subject, History of New Zealand,’ 18 meetings: enrolments, 24 (13 women, 11 men); total attendances, 320 j average per lecture, 18; percentage, 75. ’ ' . Kaitungata Class. —Subject, Principles of Economics,’ 24 meetings; enrolments, 19 (9 women,'lo men); total attendances, 269 j average per lecture, 11; percentage, 50Balclutha Class.—Subject, Economic and Sodal History of England,’ 14 meetings ; enrolments, 29 (9 women, 20 men); total attendances, 215; average per lecture, 15; percentage, 52. Railway Class, Dunedin.—Subject, ‘ Sociology and its Problems,’ 22 meetings; enrolments, 19 (men); total attendances, 310; average per lecture, 14; percentage, 74. Psychology Class, Otago University.— Twenty-four meetings; enrolments, 36 (18 women, 18 men); total attendances, 601; average per lecture, 25; percentage, 70. . Anderson Bay Class. —Subject, Europe in the Twentieth Century,’ 20 meetings; enrolments, 38 (15 women, 25 men); total attendances, 494 ; average per lecture, 25 ; percentage, 66. Virtually the whole of the students enrolled were “effectives.” # * * * ITEMS OF INTEREST.

So far tlois year the following trade unions have affiliated with the Otago District Council of the W.E.A. :-Plumbers and Gasfitters, Rope and Twine Spinners, A.S.E.S. (Otago branch), Painters, P. and T. Officers, Bakers, Bootmakers, Typographical, Engine-drivers, Carpenters, Iron and Brass Moulders, Tramways, _ Metal Workers’ Assistants, Electrical Workers, and Woollen Mills Employees. Affiliations come to hand as meetings of the unions are The following'tutorial classes and other bodies have also affiliated:—Railway class, Roslyn class,, literature class, Economics Research Society, psychology class, Nort'heast- Valley class, Green Island class, Otago Education Board, and Otago Educational Institute. ... , , , The Oamaru District Committee has lulfilled its obligation to contribute the sum of £25 towards the salary of the tutor sent from Dunedin. . , ' ... A meeting of the Dominion Council will . be held in Christchurch on Friday, October 13. Dunedin will send a delegate. Ihe agenda includesßeports from districts, discussion upon central library and uniform text books, question of establishiatr a W.E.A. journal (’Highway ) for the dominion, dominion propaganda litcrafortnightly visits are still being made to Waipori. The lectures are attended by a small but appreciative group of the local workers. The Anderson Bay class —and indeed the whole district-lost a good friend by the death of Mr C. S. Owen. He was one of the prime movers at the inception o* the class, and attended the branch held at St. Hilda in 1920. _ He was broad in mind and kindly in spirit. A ■word of praise is due to Mr H. ivendall, secretary of the railway-men’s class, for his carefully-kept and artistic roll book. Mr Kendall is thorough in everything that bo does. .He wished to make the roll book a permanent record—a thing worth keeping—and he has accomplished his object. * * * * CANTERBURY SUMMER SCHOOL. Syllabuses of the Summer School organ, ised by the Christchurch District Council have come to hand. The site has been fixed at Leithfield, North Canterbury, twenty-seven miles from Christchurch. The dates are December 26 to January 6, The general topic is to he ‘The Ethical, Psychological, and Economic Bases of Democracy,’ while supplementary classes will be formed in psychology and sociology, economics and political! science, literature .and drama, and education. A general lecture will he held every morning, between 11 and 12, at which all students are expected to be present. The afternoons will be taken up with rambles and games, and the evenings with public lectures, concerts, etc. Full particulars are printed in the syllabus, which may be bad from the Otago” district secretary. # vf* # CANTERBURY NOTES. The following report was made to a recent meeting of the Tutorial Classes Committee:—During 1922 there were twentyone classes held, both tutorial and preliminary. Of these ten were second or third-year tutorial classes, and eleven firstyear or preliminary classes. The enrolments in all classes totalled 672 students, of which total 530 were classed as effectives. The number of tutors employed was fifteen. Of these, three were on the staff of Canterbury College, one was a permanent tutor employed solely by the W.E.A. on the West Coast, and eleven were part-time lecturers, chiefly high school masters. The subjects studied were as follow: —Economics, nine classes; psychology, English literature, and music, each two classes; biology, modern drama, European historysocial theory, sociology, and public speaking, each one class. In addition fourteen public lectirres bad been given on Saturday evenings, each having been well attended. References were made to the 1922 Summer -School (attended by 100 students) and the 1922 Winter School (attended by seventy-five students. * * « * WELLINGTON ACTIVITIES. A report states that there seven W~E.A. tutorial classes in the Victoria College district. The number of students enrolled total 608, the effectives being 489. Classes have been established at Fending, Palmerston North, Miranm,, Shannon Levin, New Plymouth, Westport,_ and Wellington'. Tho students enrolled in the Wellington classes total 361, the effectives numbering 288. The subjects dealt with by the classes, the students enrolled, and the number of effectives are as Anthropology, 29 enrolments, 27 _ effectives; electricity, 95 and 59; sociology, 29 and 24; economics, 165 and 126; appreciation of music, 50 and 50; English literature, 85 and 75; psychology, 157 and 128. Totals, 608 and 489.