COUNTRY GIRLS.

Wairarapa Age, 6 October 1936, Page 4

COUNTRY GIRLS.

EDUCATIONAL WEEK OPENS. WELCOME BY MAYORESS. '■ Girls from various parts of the Wairarapa assembled in Masterton yesterday for the Country Girls’ Education Week, which has been promoted by the Women’s Division of the Union. Educational sessions of a wide and varied nature will be held daily until Friday night, when the week will close with a house party. Yesterday afternoon the girls attended a meeting of the Girl Guides Association and lust night they assembled in the Women’s Division Rooms where, after a roll call, the visitors were officially welcomed by the Mayoress, Mrs T. Jordan. Other speakers were Mesdames K. Groves, president of the Masterton branch of the Women’s Division, Arch. Clark, president of Wairarapa Council of rhe Women’s Division, and C: C. Jackson. Supper was later served. To-day there will be p. roll call in the Division Rooms at If) a.m. end at 10.15 the girls will be entertained at the Plunket Rooms by the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society and given a demonstration and a talk. There will be dinner at the Division Booms at noon and at 2 pun. Miss J. McKenzie will give a demonstration on floral work. Afternoon tea will be provide! at 3 p.m. and at 3.30 p.m. there will bo a play reading, arranged by Mr. H. B. Tomlinson. Tea at the Division Room, will be at 6 o’clock, after which the girls will attend the pictures and laterbe entertained at supper at the Division Rooms.