ADULT EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 14

ADULT EDUCATION

OPERATIONS OF W.E.A.

The progress of adult education in Wellington during the past year and plans for the coming year were considered at the annual meeting of the Wellington District Council of the Workers' Educational Association, v

City courses planned for next year by the tutorial classes committee include psychology, economics, literature, current history, public administration, art, and European democracies in the crisis. Affiliations to the district council had increased during the year from 17 to 27, revealing an encouraging increase of interest in the work of the W.E.A.

Much interest centred in reports of the forthcoming summer school, which is to be held at the Feilding Agricultural High School in the Christmas holidays. Farmers, teachers, labourers, engineers, chemists, clerks, and others are registering from many parts of the North Island. Professor F. L. W. Wood is to give a series of six lectures on international affairs, and Mr. H. Winston Rhodes, M.A., Canterbury University College, will give five on literature and social change. There will also be lectures on art .and the community centre idea by Mr. H. C. D. Somerset, M.A., study groups on problems of trade unionism, story-writing for magazine and radio, drama, and recreation of all kinds. It is hoped that Professor J. Shelley will visit the school and give a play-reading.

The election of officers of the district council of the W.E.A. for the ensuing year resulted as follows: —President, Mr. M. Riske, M.A., Dip. Ed.; vice-president, Mr. A. T. Macalpin; secretary-treasurer, Mr. A. C. Barrington; executive, Dr. J. C. Beaglehole, Messrs. F. D. Cornwell, and J. Gibson; representatives on tutorial classes committee of Victoria College, Dr. J. C. Beaglehole, Messrs. Riske', Macalpin, Cornwell, and Barrington; representative on Dominion council, Mr. F. D. Cornwell.

The Dominion conference of the W.E.A. will be held in Dunedin in the second week of December, the delegates appointed being Messrs. Cornwell, Macalpin, and Barrington. Mr. A. E. Campbell, M.A., Dip. Ed., director of the W.E.A., will also attend in his capacity as honorary secretary to the Dominion council.

Special votes of thanks for their splendid services to the W.E.A. over many years were accorded to Mr. F. D. Cornwell, the retiring president, who was unable to accept re-election, and to Mrs. Maslen, who is to leave Wellington shortly.