The Alberta Women's Institute Act - revised 1942

              THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE A C T
C H A P T E R 371
An Act respecting Women's Institutes
1. This Act mav be cited as " The Women's Institute short title
Act". [ R. SA. 1942, c. 262, s. 1]
Interpretation
2. In this Act, Interpre­tation
( « ) " council" means the council of the Alberta Wo- " council"
men's Institutes;
( b) " institute" means any women's institute incor- " institute"
porated under this Act, or to which this Act applies,
except the Alberta Women's Institutes;
( c) " provincial president" means the president of the " provincial
Alberta Women's Institutes and includes the vice- p r e s i e n t
president thereof. [ R. SA. 1942, c. 262, s. 2]
Objects
3. The objects of the institutes shall be the improve- objects
ment of social conditions in rural and other communities
by means of
( a) the study of
( i) home economics, including home nursing,
household science, sanitation, food values, sick­room
cookery, house furnishing, sewing and
other matters, and
( ii) child welfare, prevention of disease, local
neighbourhood needs, industrial and social con­ditions,
(&) the establishment of institutes as social and ed­ucational
community centres and the provision of
a welcome to new settlers in the community,
( c) the encouragement of agriculture and an improve­ment
of agricultural conditions, and
( d) the holding, establishment and maintenance of de­monstrations,
lectures, short course schools, tra­velling
and other libraries, exhibitions, competi­tions,
meetings, conventions and such other utili­ties
and attractions as may from time to time be
declared useful for the promotion of the foregoing
or any of them. [ R. SA. 1942, c. 262, s. 3]
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