Tells 3YA Listeners About "Feeding the Family."

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 33, 22 February 1935, Page 14

Tells 3YA Listeners About "Feeding the Family."

VERY tall, fair and blue-eyed-here is. a picture of Miss A. R. Powell, of Christchurch, who has been. telling women listeners about cqgoking from 38YA for the last three years, Miss Powell’s "Weeding the Family" «series has been keenly followed every Friday morning. ‘and this young girl knows her. work, being demonstrator for the Municipal HPlec- ' tricity Department ‘in Christchurch, ‘+ Miss Powell. is a very busy person, for, in addition to her broadcast work, she "gives two demonstrations. a week::at ‘ths ‘ LE. D. rooms, and visits many homes to give private lessons: on the. use of electric stoves. . During her seven years’ ‘vesidence in . Christchurch, Miss Powell attended’. the Girls’ High School and later. became a ~ student at-Otago University, whére she studied Home Science. and took her de-. gree. Miss Powell is one of a family, of three, her sister, Miss Una, Powell, having just obtained her M.A. Degree with First-Class Honours in Mathematics at Canterbury College. Miss A. R. Poweil leaves New Zealand on April 2-for her first trip abroad, and ig very thrilled at .the prospect. She is making the trip to Bngland to further her Home Science work, and all listeners will wish this plucky girl lots of success in her new. venture. ,