It Starts in Waitaha
Y OU'VE probably never heard of Waitaha, and. neither had Joan Faulkner Blake till she started browsing through the files of the Adult Education Service of New Zealand. Well, for the record, it’s a little place in South Westland, and Mrs. Blake makes it the starting point for a series of talks on adult education which are now being heard from 2XG at 8.45 p.m. on Fridays, and will start in-the 2YA Business Women’s Session on Saturday, July 17. What the people of Waitaha wanted was a drama course, but the point of the story is in a letter written by one of the settlers when the course finished. Quite apart from play acting, he said, the visits of the adult education tutor had fostered a community spirit which had been sadly lacking and which might not have : been developed in any other way for a. long time. That’s the sort of thing adult education has done for many other small communities, too. Mrs. Blake talks in a very entertaining way about such cases and about the achievements of the Service, __
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 21
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