HOME SCIENCE SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 2

HOME SCIENCE SERVICE.

• MISS MACMILLAN'S TOUR. (raoM ooa own correspondent j LONDON, February 2. .Miss Violet A. M. Mcmillan, of the home science • service department, Otago University extension staff, is on tour to make a sutdy of extension methods and organisation. During her recent journeys in the United States and Canada she visited many typical universities in the West, Middle West, South and North Central, also in Ontario and Toronto. She remained at Berkeley for a fortnight, and at Washington she saw the State Department of Agriculture, and the State Bureau for the Study of Home Economics. Every facility was accorded her to become acquainted with anything that she considered would be useful from the New Zealand viewpoint. She is collecting a great deal of matter. - , While in Toronto, Miss Macmillan met Miss Nancy Aslin, who is studying Home Economy Household Science, at* the same time being assistant lecturer for a period of eighteen months. At the International House, Columbia University, New York, she met Miss PJlizabetJi Neige Todhunter (Christchurch and Otago), who is. president of the British Group of students there, and who is working with Dr. Shannon. During her travels, Miss Macmillan was made knqwn to interesting and prominent people connected with University curriculum. Two months are to be devoted to the Mother Country, and four months to Scandinavian countries. Miss Macmillan was advised in the United States that she would find a visit to Finland of particular value. She is interviewing the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in London this week, as well as the Board of Education, and the leaders ol' th<J Women's Institutes with tbe view to making up lier travel chart for Great Britain in order; to see all that is being done in her special section of the- University. The High Commissioner has provided her with useful introductions, in addition to which she was given a number by the New Zealand University authorities. After Scandinavia, Miss Macmillan hopes to work down through Italy to Czechoslovakia. and other Continental centres of learning. The final port of embarkation for New Zealand is not yet settled; hut she will be in the Dominion by' the end of September: she has only just reached Crosby Hall, London, trom America, and there are many details yet to be arranged. , In London a student whom she has met i« Miss E. Gregory, who is at London University takinq: Biochemistry; .and another one is Miss Carol WestWatson (Cliristcliurch), who is in residence at Crosby Hall.