W.E.A. SUMMER SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18889, 3 January 1927, Page 5

W.E.A. SUMMER SCHOOL.

0 The school is now in thorough working order, under ideal weather conditions, which has quite justified the W.E.A. Council in ita cboico of Arthur's Pa&3 fox the school On Thursday the main Lecture of iho day was in the hands of Mr J. Johnson, M-A., who took a group of "Eqiialitriuns' Morel* ly, Babeuf, and Cabot—products of the Revolutionary period of Franco, as literary utopianists. The section, which is studying New Zealand development, passed on irom a summary of *hi#i to d.scuss achievement) which the lecturer suggested shouid be measured not merely by a list of statistics, but in $ more general way. Professor Shelley gave an interesting address \t the 9.15 cession on certain aspects of tho economic organisatioo of society. The usual raipb«e in the afternoon was largely attended, when the lower part of the Bealey Valley was ex« pi®r<4> At the midway rest, Mr R M lj&i'ng, M.Sc., told the story of the making of the tunnel and clescrib*d its structure. Mr H. Miller, M.A., in tho evening comrr.enced a course of lectures on "Literary Critics of Industrialism," speaking first on William Cobbett, the early nineteenth century champion of the English agricultural labourer.