HOME SCIENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 5

HOME SCIENCE

THE EXTENSION MOVEMENT}

Miss Violet Macmillan, who is a gradiM. ate of Otago University and who had two years' experience in its home scienceextension movement, has been awarded a. Sarah Anne Rhodes Fellowship' by the Council of Victoria University JEollege. The object of the fellowship is to carry on, m this university district a similar work to that,which is being at present successfully undertaken in Otago and Southland by the Otago University Home Scienca School.

As a preliminary to her undertaking this ; work, Miss Maemillah has spent a year on a Travelling Fellowship, visiting various ' countries where such movements are in successful operation, including the United ' Mates of.-America, Canada, England, Denmal'n? Sweden« Norway, and finally .New South Wales- and: Victoria. She has' tliereiore had every opportunity of examml™.best and most up-to-date methods -■ ot helping the women of rural districts in - their various problems. OpSfnLfrriVef iback from Eue%d on sth' ' °«ober and has now left for Dunedin, ' where she will stay about a month. In the meantime she is getting in touch with i the Women's Institute and the Women* posed that she should make Palraerston North her headquarters, and her office will ™ n^ asSY f College- On her retu ™ to Wellington before proceeding to Palmerston North she will broadcast from ™YA' tray T addresses with regard to:hef