ITEMS OF INTEREST

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32425, 1 May 1944, Page 3

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Drama As Education “An examination of existing pracL lice throughout New Zealand would almost certainly show that, except, in c a very few cases, youth workers are s making a very inadequate us§ of <_ drama in their work,” writes Mr J. n V. Burton in the Outlook. “Drama is !- not, to be thought of as a very intere (sting type of entertainment which may be used when the object is to enn tertain or amuse an audience. On the s contrary. educationists everywhere o are increasingly making use of it as •- one of the most effective instruments y at their command for imparting s knowledge and for developing the life e and character of the individual.” Missionaries Disappear The great mysterious hinterland of the Amazon Valley apparently has claimed nice American missionaries who entered the Bolivian jungle near the Brazilian border last November. The missionaries, eight men and one woman, plunged into a region inhabited by wild Indian tribes, who are completely untouched by civilisation. 1 Cheese Ration Reduced , “The cheese ration in Britain was , recently reduced to 2oz a person a week; it will be almost, a miracle if Britain's ration of 1/2 worth of meat, 2oz of butter, and 2oz of cheese a week can lie maintained throughout 1944,” said Mr W. Bankes Amery, leader of the United Kingdom Food Mission io Australia and New Zealand. when he was addressing the Canterbury (N.Z.) Travel Club recently. s Vacation In America ' The audience at a meeting addressed in Timaru last week by Miss Margaret. Dunning, director of phyisca! education and training courses for the j Young Women's Christian Association 1 of New Zealand, was warned to pro;pare itself for a shock when Miss ' Dunning was asked how ntnch it J would cost to send a child to one of ; the better children’s camps in Arnei rica. The cost of a vacation of four i weeks in one of these camps, said Miss Dunning, was £BO in New Zealand cut- , rency. ■ Club Closes Down j Units of the N.Z.E.F. in various parts of the world have their own clubs and recently one which was established in an island of the Pacific . found it necessary to close down. It had been - operating from April, 1943, « until February, and although really isolated, managed, by careful atten- - tion to its finances, to .show a net profit of £144/18/-. This the members have donated to the Prisoner of War Fund of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zea- ~ land Red Cross.