Centennial Plans of Country Women

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 13

Centennial Plans of Country Women

Plans are going ahead steadily in connection with the combined efforts of the Women’s Institutes and the Women’s Division of the Farmer's’ Union for their exhibits at the forthcoming Centennial Exhibition. They are arranging for a loan collection from England, Scotland and Australia. From information gathered from the secretary of the Women’s Institutes, some excellent exhibits are expected, the response from abroad being most favourable. The English and Scottish loans will be from the women’s institutes of those two countries and the Australian ones will be from the Countrywomen’s Associations. At the Exhibition there will be women from all over New Zealand demonstrating various crafts and lecturing.

The institutes have secured the lecture hall once a month for various activities, such as lectures and entertainments. A feature of the exhibits will be Maori crafts, and the display

will include many articles of a small nature which should appeal to overseas visitors for packing easily and

posting away. Various people connected with the Women’s Institutes in England have been invited to attend the Centennial Exhibition, and many visitors are expect'd from Australia. The secretary also intimated that it was hoped representatives might be present from the Chatham Islands. Failing that, it might be possible to get samples of them ciafts. It is the intention of the combined committee, of which the chairman is Miss Amy Kane, Dominion president of the Women’s Institutes, to change the exhibits from time to time. The committee has hopes that a visitor to the Dominion during the Exhibition will be Lady Denham, president of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes.

Dance at Makaraka

Lovers of dancing will be attracted to the Makaraka-Matawhcro Hall on Monday, August 14, when the Makaraka School Committee is holding one of its popular dances in aici of the school funds. This being the school's final year as a primary school, the committee is making a special effort this year to ensure that these functions will be a success such as is worthy of the closing stages of one of Poverty Bay’s oldest schools.

On this occasion a splendid homemade and savoury supper is being provided. Novelty dances, an excellent floor, and music supplied by Mrs. Thomson’s orchestra should leave nothing to be desired. Extras will be provided by a piano-accor-dion trio. Free buses will run from Katranskis corner at 8 p.m.