WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 2

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

VICE REGAL PRIZE OFFER. Miss Jerome Spencer, who introduced the women’s institute movement to New Zealand, and whose efforts have contributed largely to its success, has ben appointed by His Excellency the Governor-General to be the Government representative on th new Napier Secondary Education Board, which will administer the amalgamated secondary schools, an appointment to which Miss Spencer bring’s expert knowledge, backed by personal experience. The recognition of their leader’s splendid work in the cause of education is very gratifying to women’s institute, members, who tender her sincerest congratulations. Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Bledisloe, have offered a prize of £5 for an essay on “The Best Means of Making the Women’s Institute of Real Benefit to the Rural Areas of New Zealand.” Other interesting competitions are for gloves made from home (or New Zealand) cured skins, and for a handknitted jumped made from white wool spun with a spindle, the neck and cuffs of which may be coloured with dyes obtained from native plants. These competitions are open to women’s institue members only, but serve to show how the movement aims to encourage the use of natural products of New Zealand.