W.E.A.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19174, 3 December 1927, Page 11

W.E.A.

—-'-♦ CANTERBURY DISTRICT COUNCIL. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Canterbury District Council of the Workers' Educational Association was held on Thursday evening, Mr H. D. Acland presiding. Annual Report. The annual report set out that 33 classes were conducted; tho students numbered 1236, and the average attendance was 679. "ere were 17 tutorial classes, ?»d.16 rtudy Pjupt Of the classes 21 were in North Canterburj and 12 in South Canterbury. In the City of Cbristchurch there were 7 classes, and 23 in the outlying districts. Respecting 30 of tie classes, information w-as available as to the occupations o« the «tadenta. Men. 247 manual workors 50 office workers. 19 salesmen, 28 teachers, 25 Proj. ess ">° a , 1 «»"■ iugs, 2 retired, 29 not indicated; total. 400. Women: 406 domestic duties, 102 teachers. 47 office workers, 20 manual workers 30 shop assistants, 31 nurses, 2 retired, 134 not indicated; total, 772 The figures relating to men students indicated that there was a great preponderance of manual workers; if office workers and .hoj> assislanta were included, they showed that 316 out o{ 400 were workers in the narrow sense ot the term. As to women students, u tne figures relating to domestic duties, nurses, and manual workers were taken, they showed that 533 out of 772 were workers. This indicated that the right class of persons making use of thf W.B.A. Tta «om for the year was £624 13s 7d. and the expenditure £596 17s 4d. All the janea activities of the W.R.A. were dealt with. The report was adopted. Election of Officers. Officers were elected as follows:—President, Mr H. D. Acland; ™e-pres.dents, Messrs C. R. N. Mackie and A. H Shrubshall; organising secretary, Mr Geo. .Man ning; hoif. treasurer. Mr W. Davidson; hon. librarian, Mr W. H. .Wicks; hon. auditor, Mr J. Burgess; executive, Messrs b. Koscoe, H Worrall. C. A. Bloomfield, and W. J. McCullough; delegate to Dominion Council, professor J. Shelley: delegates to Dominion conference, Messrs 11. Worrall, C. R.>. Mackie and Professor J. Shelley; W.E.A. delegates to Tutorial Class Committee. Messrs \\. J. McCullough, W. Wood, H. Worrall. and W. Davidson.