W.E.A. ACTIVITY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 3

W.E.A. ACTIVITY

Wellington District Council Meets Plans for a comprehensive programme of tutorial classes were reposed to be well uuder way when the 17 ellingtou District Council of the Workers Educational Association met recently, Mr M. R skc„ M.A., presiding. Classes tu AVeilin ß ton will begin on April 17 and lecturers have been secured in psychology, economics, drama, literature, music, art eucn special subjects as "How Your Government Works,” “Political Thinking, and . ■■Democracies in Crisis. Madame LettsVincent will give a series of lecture-re-citals in Lower Hutt beginning on March 29 and this will be followed by a drama class. A class is also being arranged for Petone. .

The Dominion discussion course pro gramme for correspondence groups has now been issued and it covers a wide range of subjects, including economic problems, the co-operative movement, the Labour movement in New Zealand, farming problems, the farmer in the New Zealand economy, plan or no plan? understanding human nature, man’s place in nature, New Zealand today and tomorrow, language and society, the Pacific area and its problems, early New Zealand history, international issues, life uuder Bolshevism and Fascism, child psychology, appreciation of music, art, drama, the Maori, his history, arts, crafts and problems, the art of China and Japan, what is Western civilization? Regret was expressed that the W.E.A. is losing the services of Mr. A. E. Campbell, M.A. (acting-director), Mr. G. J. Garner, M.A. (tutor-organizer), and Mrs. E. Maslen (librarian). Tributes _ were paid to their work for the association. Mr. Campbell was congratulated on his appointment as director of the New Zealand Council of Educational Research, and Mr. Garner on a business appointment in Melbourne.

Reports from Mr. A. S; Hely, tutororganizer stationed in Palmerston North, disclosed a rapid preliminary tour of public works and forestry camps on the East Coast, there being encouraging signs ot activity among the study groups formed in the last two years. Another organizing tour of the Taranaki district was planned. A panel of university and other expert lecturers in Wellington who are prepared to give half-hour lectures occasionally to meetings of affiliated ,trade, unions is being arranged. The Victoria College Council advised that the district advisory committee on adult education was now being set up. Messrs. F. D. Cornwell, J. Gibson nn<l A. C. Barrington were elected W.E.A. representatives on the committee.