WORKERS’ EDUCATION
TRANSPORT BOARD DONATION A recital of what the Workers’ Educational Association was doing in Auckland for the cultural advancement of its members was successful in loosening the Transport Board’s pursestrings this morning, the board granting £lO, the contribution being its first to that organisation. In an outline of how the association was helping the worker, the president (Mr. W. H. Cocker) said that there were more than 1,000 students of the organisation in the city, and, together with country groups, the total was 1,700. The W.E.A. was purely cultural, having no political objects. In view of what the City Council had given, namely. £IOO, the association felt the board would also like to help. The secretary, Mr. Bernard Martin, said that when the society started in 1915 there were eight classes, with 164 students. Today there were 42 classes and 1,700 students. The cost to the organisation of each student was £l, but the fee payable was only ss. The difference had to come from donations and Government assistance. Local bodies in Wellington were more seized of the value of the organisation, and contributions were more generous.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1018, 8 July 1930, Page 10
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189WORKERS’ EDUCATION Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1018, 8 July 1930, Page 10
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