INTRODUCTION. 



In submitting for the attention and perusal of the members of 

 the Women's Institutes of British Columbia this, the first, depart- 

 mental bulletin issued on behalf of the organization, it affords me 

 pleasure to state that the efforts of the Department of Agriculture 

 by the inauguration of Women's Institutes towards the betterment 

 of conditions in our rural communities as affecting women is 

 meeting with the cordial support and approval of the women of the 

 Province, as evidenced by the very rapid growth and extension of 

 this movement since its inception. 



It is now two years since Women's Institutes were first 

 organized in British Columbia, and the growth since then is very 

 gratifying and encouraging. 



There are at the present time twenty-three institutes in the 

 Province, with a membership of SJT. An Advisory Board, consist- 

 ing of four members, has been appointed, in order to confer with 

 and advise the Department as to matters affecting AVomen's 

 Institute work. 



A series of bulletins will be issued dealing with the betterment 

 of conditions in home life in our country districts. 



The motto adopted by the Women's Institutes of the Province 

 is the same as that adopted by the Province of Ontario, and 

 explains in four words the chief aim and object of the Women's 

 Institutes, viz., "For Home and Country." 



WM. K. SCOTT, 



1 )c]>n t // Minister of Af/riculturc, 

 Superintendent of Institutes. 



