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Women who‘had a part in organizing Glen institute in East Elgin lost March; Mrs. J. Fenhule, president; Mrs. E. Bugâ€" nall, provincial board representative; Mrs, It. Young, president East Elgin district; Mrs. F. Campbell, Treasurer and Mrs, D. McGregor, Secretary. The new Institute started with 21 members; now it has 32, history read to encourage the preservation of local history. Ivanhoe feels the need of “more fellow- ship at conventions." more opportunity for the delegates to mingle and get to know one another. Parkdale says: “Our delegates learned how friendly the leading officers of the Women‘s Insti- tutes are. and this has helped our officers to do :heir job in the same way." Local Reports Public Relations Representatives report: “Schomberg organized a new 4-H Homemaking (tub this year. There was such a good response irom the girls of the area that the club was al- most too large for the leaders to handle. The girls rat on a fine exhibit at the District Annual. We httve now a successful, smooth-running club and the Institute is very proud of it.“ Coleridge Union this year held its third public . peaking contest for Grade VIII students, and had en Mills lnstitute‘s exhibit at the Sew to Save Sum- al’y Duy. ll 1959 a social evening at which prize winners gave their speeches and received their prizes. The Institute's annual bus trip included a visit to Fairfield's Woollen Mills. The guest speaker at the public relations meeting had had a long association with :1 local newxpuper. Comments and Recommendations Gordon Lake: “We think it would benefit every- one if the hostess would serve less lunch at meet- ings." Argyle: "Our members are mostly young mothers so we cannot carry on too many activities; but they really enjoy getting together once a month and they bring their babies. I think each locality must work out its own programme to suit the members. I cannot see the need of asking these young mothers to take too much time from their new homes to make u large balance for the Insti- tute. We like to think we are learning together an “for Home and Country. North Perth Maple Leaf: “Please stop sending our Institute name in to all the national appeals. We have trouble enough supporting our own local organizations." (We repeat that Home Eco- nomics Service never gives the addresses of Insti- tutes to anyone. The addresses are Used only for mailing our own correspondence and the corre- spondence of F.W.I.O. to Institute secreturies. Also Mrs. Maynard asks me to say that it is strictly against the policy of the F.W.I.O. oilice to furnish the addresses of Institutes to any fund- raising organization. When an appeal for funds does reach an Institute it rests with the members to deal with it as they wish. At the Oilicers' Con- ference some of the delegates reported that they did not give funds directly to any organization but where they were in sympathy with a cause. such as the appeal of the Cancer Society, they found they could be of far more help by doing the Society‘s canvaSsing for funds in their com~ munity.â€"Ed.l Lion‘s Head: “Our members are quite dis- couraged. We get so much literature and so many letters asking for donations. So much of all our 37