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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 184, 11 August 1870, Page 2

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. At the last meeting it was decided that the evening classes should be self-supporting, and that each class should be formed as soon as a sufficient number of persons had given in their names. The different branches are—bookkeeping and commercial correspondence, practical mensuration and surveying, algebra and practical mathematics, navigation, French, German, Latin, easy lessons in reasoning, vocal music, and drawing. It was stated that the youth of Auckland are supplied with the rudiments of knowledge at the different day schools, and at the evening classes that many of the teachers have opened, so that, in the matter of primary instruction, the Institution would not interfere, but would devote itself almost exclusively to secondary education, asubject of vast importance to a commercial colony. What they desired to do was to place before those who had left school the means whereby they might increase their stock of knowledge ; furnish them with facilities for gaining useful information ; and enable them to cultivate, as a _ pleasure, those various intellectual occupations which.at school presented such a forbidding appearance that the work was considered a daily drudgery, and the lesson a tedious task.