A LITTLE BUILDING AND A BIG EXPERIMENT
VER been to Feilding? There’s a little building there, in one of the streets backing the Square, that is nothing much architecturally. Fact is, I'm told, an earthquake shook the top. off it. Which fact proved pretty lucky for a scheme growing in the mind of an altruistic and tireless man. H. C. D. Somerset, M.A., couldn’t seeand a good many of us can agree with himwhy our minds should stop functioning (or, at least, developing) with the termination of our school years... You know the woman who "had ideas once" but somehow "never came to anything"? And the man who "promised to go far" but "just didn’t happen"? In a sense they’re you and me, aren’t they? "How’s your music?" "©, I’ve dropped all that now..." "Look here, weren’t you pretty good at painting?" "Was, ay Never touch it now. You know how it is.
But America’s women have shown us that our powers of achievement can be made to keep on keeping on-the notion that they must dwindle at thirty or thereabouts has been proved the sheerest nonsense. In spite of homes and families, business and. responsibilities, we can proceed. "In spite of them?" Good Lord, because of them. We owe it to our youngsters coming on, to our friends,.to ourselves. There are too many people walking about our streets who "died" fifteen years ago. Now; in Feilding-in this little ex-Town Hall that nobody wanted because the top fell off-is a centre of stimulus that provides incalculable pleasure ‘and health. Health, not only of the physical variety; but of the more complex mental kind we are’so apt to ignore. A Community Centre-State run-touching any and every interest that appears to be neededgymnasium, diet, child study, psychology, drama, poetry, art, language, and world affairs. . It works under the general direction of L. J. Wild, Headmaster of that most excellent Feilding Agricultural High School. But it is to Mrs. Somerset that much of the credit is owing for her tireless activity and enthusiasm. Her job it is to find and keep a finger on the pulse of women’s needs and interests. Her two small boys lose nothing and gain much. This is one Centre of proved usefulness. Is there: any reason why there shouldn’t be more?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 42
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382A LITTLE BUILDING AND A BIG EXPERIMENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 42
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