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MANAGEMENT AND ACCOMMODATIONS. 



I regret that I cannot report favorably upon the arrangements made 

 for the Women's Institute delegates from B.C. to the Congress, and in 

 the opinion of the delegates, blame is not to be attached to the local 

 authorities but to the management of the Congress. The accommodations 

 arranged for women were insufficient and in many cases not such as 

 ought to have been offered to any one. I make no reference to the 

 accommodations in private homes, which naturally were of a varied 

 character, but to that arranged for in other buildings in the city. There 

 seemed to be no co-operation between the management of the Women's 

 Congress and the women of Lethbridge so far as the comfort of the 

 women delegates were concerned. Should you care to have more specific 

 accounts of this failure to arrange proper accommodations it can easily 

 be had from many of the delegates. We made no formal protest at the 

 meeting as it was not our business to do so, but it would seem as if some 

 protest should be made in the interests of what is undoubtedly a good 

 work. The Congress of Farm Women presents wonderful opportunities 

 but its management should be most careful and of an unimpeachable 

 character. 



HONOR'S TO BRITISH COLUMBIA DELEGATES. 



Every disposition was shown to include B.C. in any honors which 

 the Congress had to distribute. Your representative was elected Second 

 Vice-President of the Congress. I was not present when election took 

 place, as the meetings being over, I had left that morning. I regret 

 this as I should have liked to express our gratification of B.C. being 

 thus recognized. I went across the Continent immediately after this, 

 and saw a great many American papers. The fact that a British Columbia 

 woman had been chosen for one of the four officers of this great inter- 

 national organization was widely commented upon throughout the 

 American papers. I hear also tha; Canadian papers made favorable 

 comments. This in itself would justify the fact of your having sent 

 delegates to this Congress. 



I hope you will consider that the British Columbia delegates . from 

 Women's Institutes made the most of their opportunities and that the 

 Province will receive corresponding benefit. 



I have, etc., 



M. R. WATT, 

 Secretary, Advisory Board Women's Institutes, B.C. 



Report of Mrs. Lipsett, Member of Advisory Board of Congress of Farm 



Women, 1912. 



The Second International Convention of Farm Women, opened in 

 Lethbridge on October 19th to 26th. 



Following prayer by Rev. Mr. Cameron, the Cardstone Choir rendered 

 the National Anthems of Canada, United States and England. 



Welcome was extended in turn for the Dominion by Mrs. Bulyea, wifo 

 of the Lieut. -Governor of Alberta, Mrs. Marshal, for Alberta, and Mrs. 



