WOMEN'S INSTITUTE REPORT. 13 



It is hoped that many more visitors and possible members will thus 

 attend Institute meetings and thafr'newcomers will be thus able to come 

 quickly in contact with the Institutes. 



A list has also been prepared to date of speakers and demonstrators 

 available for Institute work in B. C. There are probably many equally 

 good, but these ladies have applied or have been recommended to the 

 Department for this work on instruction. The Board has investigated 

 the qualifications of these ladies for Institute lecturing and demonstrating 

 land is in a position to give any further information desired. It would 

 seem as if the Institutes should feel some responsibility in the matter 

 of providing extra speakers, that is, speakers other than those sent out 

 from the Department in the spring and fall. The cost will not be great 

 and the resultant benefit to the Institutes will be very noticeable. Other 

 work assigned has been that of investigating the qualifications and merits 

 of those desiring to be connected with this work and of the plans and 

 suggestions regarding different lines of work sent in to the Department 

 or to the Board. It is perhaps not generally recognized how many ideas 

 and plans are brought to the attention of the 'Central Workers, on all 

 lines of women's work in the country. 



There are many plans for the settlement of woman farmers in this 

 Province and for the spread of Institute work, which requires most careful 

 consideration and which are often found to be such as we should like 

 to see adopted, and perhaps the hardest part of the work is to report 

 unfavorably upon plans, which may have great merit, but which are 

 impracticable at the time when they were brought forward. The members 

 of the Board would like to be well equipped for the discussion of agricul- 

 tural problems relating to women and it is hoped that we will be given 

 an opportunity for meeting those who come to this Province with plans 

 for the settlement or work of women in the country. In this way we 

 may receive new impressions and new points of view and thus be able 

 to be of greater use in this work. 



Th'} planning of certain work among the Institutes has been referred 

 to the Board,' that of competition among Women's Institutes, whereby 

 the endeavors of the members, both individual and in the Institute, may 

 be recognized. We hope the plan we are submitting will meet with your 

 approval. 



[We are also submitting at your request a plan for Department assist- 

 ance to the Women's Institute exhibition work, which we hope will be 

 suitable.] 



An important piece of work was that of the following up of the 

 decision to select motto, badge and colors for the B.C. Institutes. After 

 considerable shifting of the responsibility back and forward between tho 

 Department and the Board, the Secretary was able finally to announce 

 to the Department the decision to recommend the motto, "For Home and 

 Country," as used by Ontario, and for badge the pin of Ontario, but in 

 our own colors and with the initials of our own Province. The choice 

 of colors made was green, white, and gold, and has met with great 



