MISCELLANEOUS NEWS I9 



Let US close these brief notes with a few figures showing the amounts 

 granted to the various provinces by the Federal Government under the 

 Agricultural Instruction Act, for the Women's Institutes and Domestic 

 Science linstruction. 



Prince Edward Island : Dollars 



(Women's Institutes) 3,000 



Xova Scotia : 



(Organization of Women's Institutes) 1,000 



New Bruns'S'ick: 



(Organization of Women's Institutes and other Associations for 



Women in the Rural Districts) 3,000 



Quebec : 



(Domestic Science) 7,00c 



Ontario : 



(Women's Institutes, with courses of Instruction in Cooking, Dress- 

 making etc.) 6,300 



Manitoba : 



(Journeys of a Domestic Economy Teacher, including Expenses, 2,500, 

 Home Economic Societies Demonstration Work Equipment, 

 2,500) 5,000 



A Iberta : 



(For Domestic Science) 2,000 



British Columbia : 



(For Short Courses in Domestic Science, Hygiene, Home Treatment 

 of the Sick, Dressmaking, Cooking etc. in connection with 

 Women's Institutes) 2,500 



The amount of these grants clearly shows the interest the public 

 authorities are taking in the women's institutes and the importance they 

 rightly attach to them. 



(From the Report on the Women's Institutes of the Province of Ontario 191 3. Part /» 

 published by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, Toronto, 1913 and the .-4 iricitl- 

 tural Gazette of Canada, published by the Department of A.gricullure, OUawa, 

 Canada. Numbers for Januarj', March, and April, 1913). 



