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The Board is now engaged under the direction of the Department in a 

 report upon the Rules and Regulations of Women's Institutes. Advice has 

 been sought from officers as to needed changes, additions and omissions 

 and a report will be soon presented for the consideration ol the Superin- 

 tendent. A lecturer for the Spring meetings on out-door pursuits for 

 women in the country has been recommended who can speak on the com- 

 mercial aspects of these occupations. A programme for her visits is being 

 arranged at each W. I. in connection with the lectures and that a prize 

 may be given by the Department for certain classes. The matter of the 

 motto, colors and design for badge has been dealt with and a sample pia 

 is now being made for the consideration of the Superintendent. 



As some indication of how the usefulness of the Board has been already 

 proved, it may be mentioned that already over 500 letters have passed 

 through the Secretary's hands in the few months the Board has been in 

 xistence. 



The Board hopes that the Institutes will remember that our work is new 

 to us; and not be too critical of us at present. We have had to feel. our way 

 and adjust ourselves to ourselves, to the Department, and to the Institutes. 

 Any new movement requires time to find itself, to get ballasted, and we 

 are making haste slowly. We hope that the Institutes will not regard our 

 shortcomings but will, with us, look steadfastly forward to our ulti- 

 mate goal: 



The Women's Institute of British Columbia, the best in Canada! 



"The assimilation of the large numbers who are coming to us from many 

 lands each year, and the making of them citizens, who will maintain the 

 high ideals which have characterized the Canadians in the past, is a re- 

 sponsibility which the loyal subject will be glad to accept. The Institute 

 must, if it lives up to its opportunities, play a large part in this." Geo. B. 

 Putnam, Superintendent of Institutes, Ontario. 



