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Fifty years of achievement 5 "We have no intention of allowing such a rat/I'm] movement in our village" wrote a determined Lady-- of--the-Manor, fifty years ago, to a request that a Women's Institute should he formed at her gates. She understood that, owing to a most undesirable system of voting, in which her vote would count for no more than any cottager's, there was no guarantee that she would be the lnstitute's chair-- man, and she considered the whole atlair would be most unsettling for the village. But these were unsettling times. The Great War had broken out the year before, and country-- women everywhere were looking for a lead in the growing and preserving of food to meet the ever--