FULL PROGRAMME

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2886, 29 March 1939, Page 2

FULL PROGRAMME

EXTENSIVE TOUR ABROAD

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE PARTY

What times the members of the Women’s Institute tour abroad are going to have, and what tales they will have to tell on their return. It is just announced that when they go to France to lay their wreath on the New Zealand war memorial at Lon-gueval-Flers the entire village is going to make a day of it. Two mayors, the Returned Soldiers’ Association, the .fire brigade, and the population of two villages propose to receive the party. May 14 will be a Sunday, so everyone in the vicinity will be able to attend.

The schoolmasters are giving special lessons on New Zealand, and the children will write essays for the occasion. The essays are to be submitted to the organiser, Miss Brenda Bell, of Palmerston, before she arrives, and the Women’s Institutes are giving- a prize for the best essay. The prize will be something made in New Zealand. During the evening, Miss Bell will give a lecture on New Zealand, and the town hall kinema projector is of-

fered for the occasion to show the slides. While the French are learning about New Zealand the New Zealanders are to learn about France. The Mayor (Monsieur Tabary) is arranging for a visit to a farm where the New Zealanders will be able to recognise the quality of the stock, even they do not entirely understand the explanations of management. The interpreters attached to the party will endeavour to make everything quite clear.

In Germany, the corresponding country women’s society, the Reichsbauernfuhrer, of which Frau Kuessner Gerhard is the head (she is to represent the society at the London conference) offers to arrange a programme. The Consul-general for Germany in New Zealand has expressed interest in the plans of the Women’s Institute tour and offered all assistance possible.

The Consul for France (Monsieur Pouquet) has also been most helpful in arranging- matters in his country. It is realised that this tour offers great opportunities to members to see something of the life of similar women and men abroad, and that such knowledge and friendship leads to better understanding of world affairs as well as to merely personal enjoyment.