COUNTRY WOMEN IN CITY

Southland Times, Issue 23893, 11 August 1939, Page 9

COUNTRY WOMEN IN CITY

FOURTH DAY OF VISIT

EDUCATIONAL ADDRESS AND RURAL VISITS

The programme planned for Country Women’s Week was continued yesterday with a visit to Mataura in the morning, when the Mataura branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers Union entertained the visitors to morning tea. Mrs R. G. Dickie, vice president, extended a welcome. Mrs Orr thanked the Mataura members for their welcome and hospitality and expressed regret at the absence of Mrs C. D. Taylor, the president of the branch. She asked that a message of sympathy be sent to Mrs Taylor in her bereaveMrs Mollison, of Isla Bank, endorsed Mrs Orr’s expression of thanks. After morning tea, an hour’s tour of the New Zealand Paper Mills was made proving a novel and instructive experience. Mrs J. Kennard, on behaL of the party, thanked those who had conducted the tour.

MODERN TRENDS OF EDUCATION In the afternoon Miss A. Eastwood, M.A., principal of the Southland Girls High School, addressed the delegates on modern trends of education. The first of the modem trends, Miss Eastwood said, was the very much closer relationship between the parents and the public on the one hand, and the schools on the other. Parents associations, which were to be found all over the world, had been formed in some parts of New Zealand, especially at. some of the smaller High Schools. Both the Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools in Southland had these organizations. The two-fold result was the fostering of additional interest and the gaining of education for the parents. The second trend was ( the wider meaning given to the term “education, which at one time, was confined to schooling, but now every influence affecting a child’s life was considered as education. The third trend was the discussion of what the child should be taught and on that question Miss Eastwood gave an outline including one’s own. language, health and fitness, appreciation of the beautiful by training the hand, the eye and the ear, a knowledge of history with special reference to the British character and tradition and the necessity for knowing geography and the desirability of a little knowledge of many scientific subjects. Another modern trend was the change that had taken place in discipline, with the tendency to become increasingly lax, while the last modem tendency enumerated by Miss Eastwood was the need to educate for democracy and how to use rights. Mrs F. J. Brown, Edendale and Mrs J. Clark Isla Bank expressed thanks to Miss Eastwood for her talk and expressed the great confidence they all felt in sending their daughters to her school CARE OF BABY A trip to the Truby King Hospital was made by bus in the afternoon when the matron, Miss Ingold, explained the training and work of the nurses. The activities in the mothercraft and babycraft sections were described, the care of the premature baby and the sick baby and the diet of each discussed. Miss Ingold devoted part of her talk to the care of the child and how to bring up the healthy child. She emphasized the importance of fresh air, sufficient sleep and care in feeding as the foundation of good health. The nurses served tea to the visitors after which Mrs A. H. Bremner, Greenhills, and Mrs C. Campbell, Tussock Creek, expressed the thanks of those present to the matron and nurses for the time and attention they had given to them.