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people. We were led in the singing of French songs and our meeting closed with ‘0 Canada’, some singing in English. others in French.” At Combermere “an interesting talk was given by a Polish New Canadian member who spent much of the war period in the Polish underground and the concentration camp.” A local girl who had spent two years teach- ing in Germany gave a lecture with slides on a tour in Europe, Asia. Egypt and Russia at Glasgow Institute‘s international meeting. Lochwinnocll invited the community to see moving pictures of historic interest, taken on a tour of England, Scotland, France, Italy and Switzerland. Cumberland had a roll call to be answered by showing an article from another country. Navan on its international night had as guests New Canadians from Holland, Wales, England, Scotland, the Ukraine and Norway, who told how they celebrated Christmas Eve, differences in their churches and ours, native foods and their ways of preparing them. They brought samples of some of their national dishes. Moonstone had a discussion on “What I would do if I were in the County C0uncil.” Thornton: “One of our New Canadian mem- bers convened the citizenship program. She told of experiences of herself and her family in becoming Canadian citizens. The program _ opened with the Hymn of All Nations." Avening arranged to have the county Agriâ€" cultural Representative address a meeting on “Farm Planning as Related to the Family” and they invited their husbands and neighbors to the meeting. Account books were shown and an interesting discussion followed. Georgian discovered that a nurse from Ausâ€" tralia was nursing in a nearby hospital and that there was a man in the district who had spent five months in New Zealand. so they arranged with the two to speak at their International meeting. Each year time is given at several meetings to a study of a Canadian province. Helena Feashy Institute got in touch with Fort Providence Institute in the North West Territories and “at the request of the officers has been sending them books and handicraft material to help teach the natives how to knit Shui Chun. n six-year-old Hong Kong girl sponsored by KingsmiII-Mopleton Insti- tute through the Suva the Children crusade. The to- ‘her's earnings as an "earth laborer" are not sufficient to support his fumin and send them to school and the lrjstitute's help makes it pos- sible for the little girl to be I" kindergarten. FAll. I9fi4 Miss Lindu Goodrnurphy, receiving from Mrs. Trivers. President F.W.|.O., the Lilly Petty Algomu Women‘s institute Scholarship. At right is Mrs. Brock Sudduby, Secretory-treasurer of the scholarship committee. lindo is now a nurse-in-troining. and sew." . . . North Waterloo had a district rally when Miss Iean Steckel, a local girl, home on furlough from work with F.A.O., showed slides and spoke of her work in Sierra Leone." Bridgeport: “Our guest speaker, Mr. Elliot Moses from the Six Nations Indian Reserve was most interesting. His display of Indian relics added to the address.” Laura Rose branch enjoyed an address by Mrs. Ethel Brant Monture, a wellâ€"known In- dian lecturer. Linwood: "We had a speaker with pictures on the international Village for children from all countries. This year their camp will he at Belwood. Other Institutes might want to learn more about this camp." Bloomingdale, following a program on Eski- mos with an exhibit of their dolls and soapâ€" stone handicraft, gave $100 to the UNESCO Coupon 367 project. Badenoch had a motto: “Ask not what your country can do for you but what can you do for your country." Eramosz: a panel discussion on “Education from the Cradle to the Grave.” Moshorough: We held our International Meeting in a local school in the evening and invited the community and other Institutes. Our guest speaker had served with the World Coun- cil of Churches in Italy and Austria and every- one found his talk and slides very interesting. A group of West Indian students from the Fed- erated Colleges in Guelph played music repre- sentative of their Islands and danced the limbo. Royal: “After our Citizenship and Education program on the far North we sent magazines, clothing and rugmaking materials to the Insti- tutes there." West End made their International Night the occasion for a Special collection of "Pennies for Friendship.” Kirkwall and Valens branch is trying to ar- range a correspondence with institutes in the North West Territories. 37