INSTITUTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 12, 15 January 1932, Page 2

INSTITUTES

I’ JELL TO MISS STOPS Miss A. M. Stops, who has spent a considerable time in New Zealand as the honorary organiser of the Women’s Institutes, was farewelled by a representative gathering of institute member.: who assembled at the Pioneer Club, Wellington, on Wednesday afternoon. Members from, many institutes in. the Wellington Province and representatives of institutes in the South Island and members of the Pioneer Club Circle were present. I Miss Kane, president of the Pioneer Club Circle, who welcomed the guests, said they were all sorry to sec Miss Stops go, but her work would live and grow. After wishing her bon voyage and a happy reunion at Homo, Miss Kane ] resented her with a greenstone pendant an fruit knife as a memento from the Hutt group. Miss Stops thanked. th< members for their gift and everyone for their co-operation. The thought she wished to leave with members she brought from Wanganui—carvtd there over the park gates: ‘‘The common good is the common care; all must help if all must share/’ She quoted th ' little French peasant in “The House of Adventure”: “My religion is, never to do mean things, never to grow hard, always to remember that our gardens are miracles, and that nothin g happens by chance.” Miss Stops said “good-bye” to everyone, and the proceedings ended with musical honours. She sails to- ay by the Maunganui ior Sydney, and will visit Singapore en route for her homo in England. Later in the year there is to be a great gathering of Women's Institute delegates from British ami foreign countries, and Miss Stops intends to make known the good work done by the institutes for the countrywomen in New Zealano., ami also the fine way in which they take up the work. Their ingenuity in using up waste materials, for instance, is wonderful, and they discover talents in themselves and in each other that all make for usefulness and. happiness. Miss Stops has been responsible for the opening of over two hundred new institutes in New Zealand, there having been about eighty, all doing good work, when, she arrived. She w'ill be much missed, and leaves a host of friends behind her, who all hope that she will be able to return to New Zealand some daye, <wid see son)# of the fruits of the good work she 1a $ lone here.