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Members of the lyn Cloth» ing Club, Leeds county, with their exhibit at their Achievement Day. urinth sent a letter to all former members had dropped out of the Institute and to of the women in the community who not members. intral Elgin Junior Institute plans to atâ€" new members by having more Clemon~ 1on5 and group participation in the proâ€" ones. Lavender invites prospective memâ€" to meetings, provides transportation and each visitOr a programme with an in- on to come again. Anderdon suggests ding transportation for any woman who t't drive. itancthon plans to give each of three 4 a membership for a year. Rosemount memberships to newcomers to the com- ty; also suggests having more evening ings so that young mothers can attend. Korah is sending notes to ex-members invitations to young mothers asking them mg their pre-school children with them. «ford reports: “The local leader project sted a number of ladies and We hope to some of them join.” Lisburn distributes of its year’s programme to women in the «unity who might become interested and -he Institute. Kai's has one special meet- l'or the new people in the community. "rimmon says “We are hoping to have a course and get visitors interested in way.” Cedarville members plan to call ‘\‘.'CDITlEl'S and offer to take them to meetâ€" :n their cars. voden and Lake Charles Grandview ad- “Have more programme items of interest 'nore recreation." Belgrave: “Nonâ€"mem- Ire invited to meetings and asked to take We feel that our millinery course and rip got us four new members." Redditt: . as the importance of good homemaking “ "he advantage gained in this by being a .«m's Institute member." Brigden plans Ml programmes to prospective members InVJte them to join. Sombra plans a '5'!" and Daughter banquet. "Outsiders" oe invited and any proceeds will go to F “"1" Youth activities. “"30 {load advises: “Open and close meet- L on time With the business period as brief I U- 195! LYN i' i 1 \\\\' {mutants and peppy as possible." Centre Flos: “Scout around and try to get back old members, too." Monkton: “Invites the mothers with small children and make them welcome." Carilbray: "When meetings are held in homes sometimes the hostess brings in neighbors who join later.” Strahane says: “We have several new girls in our 4â€"H Homemaking Club. Some of their mothers are not nit-ml)ch but we hope to interest them." General Comments and Suggestions St. Paul's: "We have been losing members because of demands for money. Others say they cannot. afford to become members," Stafl‘a: “At the beginning of the year we distributed a questionnaire to each member to be filled in. This was to find who! they would like to have on the programme for the coming year and if certain items should be continued, The replies were very helpful in planning the year's programme.” Hall's Glen suggests that meetings should be given more sociability by cutting down the time for business and that less money should be sent away. Sailors’ Encampment: “No mutter how in- teresting the programmi- we hurl planned, most of our meetings seem in he Spt'tll on business. We propose to read only the high- lights of correspondence so that we may have time for our programmes." Rugby: "The Institute is doing a good work ‘for home and country‘ by putting on interest- ing courses." Bradford: “Speaking for our own Institute we feel we should make better use of the Loan Library and have more papers prepared by our own members; also some form of recreation at each meeting.” Churchill: “This is the first year that our branch directors have been active and it is amazing what our committee of three did. They saw that each lady had a programme. Guests at our meetings increased mainly be- cause they had received a friendly telephone call from a director.” Port Arthur: “We feel that Thunder Bay with its length of 300 miles should have at 41