ADULT EDUCATION

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20693, 31 December 1938, Page 4

ADULT EDUCATION

PAERATA SUMMER CAMP •RECREATION AND CULTURE The summer school at Wesley College. Paerata of the Workers’ Educational Association is being well attended. Comfortably accommodated in the college buildings, the tutors and pupils make an adult company of over JOO various parts of New Zealand, and even as far afield as Sydney, to enjoy a varied recreational and cultural proThc camp life calls on all to perforin their quota of the menial duties, as well as taking part in the sporting.' social and educational activities, and one can find that one is served with soup at dinner by a gentleman who, being a university professor, can also provide mental fare of the highest order at lecture time later in the evening. Under Hie circumstances, Hie service at dinner is not always of the standard -.i.liie educational service. In a course nf morning lectures. Mr D. Robb, of Hie Auckland medical fraternity, has taught on Hie subject "The Practice of Medicine from the Scientific Point of YVw." with some referenci .0 the social security scheme Mr E. M. II:-grins. ~f Auckland, has spoken on "Intcrp.vlut i.wvs of History.” The subject of "Aduult Education" is entrusted to Mr A. B. Thompson, of Auckland. Limiting factors in present social and economic trends 111 New Zealand have been the theme of a discourse by Professor 11. Belsbaw. while other finance, sterling funds, public-works policy, and farming problems are Dr. W. B. Sutch. Mr L. Holt, of Auckland, ” ‘ Mi 1 s. Leathern, of Auckland.