ADULT EDUCATION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 19 March 1941, Page 5

ADULT EDUCATION

CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE LOCAL PERSONNEL The Women's Division of the Fa 7mcrs' Union and Women's Institutes of the Whakatane district have for some time been interested in Adult Education and under the Auckland University College Advisory Committee ot Adult Education havo formed a co-ordinating committee to further the work in this area.

The personnel of the committee has been elected as follows: —Mrs Caverhil 1 (Manavvahe-Otakiri W. 1.), Mrs Linsell (Tc. Teko), Mrs Cray (Edgecumbe), Mrs Berry (Whakatane), Mrs Mitchell (Taneatua), Mrs Woolfield (Waimana), Mrs Haul tain (Awakcri) and Mrs T. Craddoek (Thornton).

Mrs D. Johnson, B.H.Se., has been appointed tutor-organiser for the Auckland University College district and some of the subjects in which she will be prepared to lecture are •: Various aspects of nutrition; family budgeting and expending; household administration; economy in wartime; the growth oi personality; what it means to grow up; buymansliip; home making for young married people; house planning; the industrial history and economic problems of women the. education of girls; child management and care; Looks women should read; how to look at pictures.

The lectures Avill be arranged similarly to the garden tutoring course which lin£ recently been concluded in this district and the committee would welcome, suggestions from the general public as to the types of courses required. Other enquiries b? interested people will be welcomed by the. committee.