WOMEN’S INSTITUTES
FIRST CONFERENCE,
GOVERNOR-GENERAL ’S TRIBUTE,
(Per Pres* Association.—Copyright.)
WELLINGTON, Thursday
Ills Excellency, the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Bledisloe, today opened the first Dominion Conference of Women’s Institutes held in New Zealand.
In a comprehensive address he boro testimony to the work being accomplished throughout' the Empire by the Institute movement, and recounted activities in England with which ho was conversant.
“If it will be a spur to the development of the moveinent here, ’ ’ sa id Lord BledlsToc. “Her Excellency and I will lie pleased to provide annually, for the next Jive years, a prize of £T for the best essay by a New Zealander on the best means of making Women’s Institutes a real benefit to the rural are a s o f Ne w Z cal an d. * ’
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Northern Advocate, 3 October 1930, Page 8
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