W.E.A.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 June 1933, Page 5

W.E.A.

FUTURE ACTIVITIES. The primary object of their organisation was to get people thinking, Mr 11. C. Robinson observed at the meeting of the Masterton branch of the W.E.A. last evening. In pursuing this aim, they would be assisted by a grant of £2O made by the Trust Lands Trust. It was surely never more necessary that people should learn to think than it was to-day, when the twenty-fifth international conference since the Great War was meeting in a desperate effort to patch up a world that was, to quote Mr Baldwin, cracking —a world that was facing the problem, amongst others, of protecting its people against the onslaught of an Asiatic Power whose teeming people had become suddenly industrialised. Our first problem in this country was to decide how to feed and clothe our people. The committee of the W.E.A. had definitely decided to continue the recent debate on unemployment, on a date to be arranged. It had asked for speakers who had studied the subject to volunteer to take part. There had been some response, and it wanted-more, They were endeavouring to arrange for persons from outside centres who had studied the question to participate in the debate. No limit would be placed on views'or suggestions, so long as they were genuine, thoughtful suggestions, and not merely abuse of the authorities who were carrying on the country. The aim' was to promote ■an informative debate that would lead to a practical solution.