Country Life Interest

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 17 (Supplement)

Country Life Interest

A pag® devoted to the interests of the Country Women of the Waikato, and In particular to advanotng and recording the activities of those two great national organisations, the Women’s Institutes and the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union.

BRITISH EXHIBITION WOMEN’S IMPORTANT PART In May next year the British Empire Exhibition opens at Bellahouston Park, near Glasgow, writes the Countrywoman. On the crest of a hill a tower will rise, an all-metal skyscraper .300 feet high, designed by Thomas S. Tait, F.R.1.8.A., architect of the Exhibition, and of Sydney Harbour Bridge. “ Tait’s Tower,” Scotland calls it. From the galleries of Tait’s Tower visitors will be able to see the gs of the Exhibition, spread out below them like a map, over 170 acres of the park. They will see the pavilions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and, on the fringe of the hill, the British Colonies. Beyond the grounds of Bellahouston Park flows the Clyde, and, beyond I the mountains of the Highlands. From Tait s Tower one will see the Empire in miniature, set in that Scottish countryside from which so many people of the Dominions have sprung. Rightly enough, women are taking an important part in this Exhibition. The Women of the Empire have a pavilion, designed by Miss Margaret Brodie. A.R I 8.A., a Glasgow architect. One section of the pavilion will be devoted to an exhibition of handicrafts and the Counustralia" New Zealand, South Africa and Burma have already accepted the invitation to take part. In addition, Sir Harry Lindsay, Director of the Imperial Institute, is arranging a composite display from the Colonies. The Glasgow and ' ind College of Domestic Science is pl«i • a v< ry ii ti r* stii g exhibit. It will consist of a small laboratory illustrating modern research in food. Dietitians will be theie, to give advice on what food to buy and how to cook it, to get the best nutritive value. Science and the Arts . Another exhibit, presented by Lady Hart Dyke, will deal with silk worms, cocoons, and the process of silk making. Since a silk worm s life lasts onlv 42 days, these specimens will be mounted. Lady Hart Dyke’s farm is in Kent, and it would hardly be practicable or kind to keep live silk worms travelling the 500 miles to Scotland throughout the six months of the Exhibition. As a demonstration of Empire education, an infants classroom is being arranged, showing drawings by children from different parts of the Empire, with the books they use and some of their toys. The Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes are showing a farm-house kitchen, with baking in progress. ... . , Women’s work in science and the arts will find expression m hundreds of interesting exhibits, and throughout the run of the Exhibition the Pavilion of the Women of the Empire will be the scene of period displays, lectures, conferences, and demonstrations, illustrating women’s interests in every sphere. With the gracious patronage of the Queen, and a committee representing five hundred thousand British women, headed by Lady Elgin, the Women’s Pavilion should be a centre of attraction for every woman who visits the Exhibition.