SEDDON TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 257, 3 November 1906, Page 7

SEDDON TECHNICAL COLLEGE

{By Telcjrapu.—itcfs Association.) CHBISTCHVRCH. Friday. T'lie foundation .-tnm> of tlio Seddou Technical C'ollogp was laid to-day by the Hon. Goo. Fowlrls. Minister few Edupation. Tlip collpjtp was adopted as «local uiPßiorial to Mr. Soddon. Lt is intended to add an ;>--emWy hall, roadinjrooE, technological ann e Piurj, wool department, and smith's fhop. Thorp was ■% lan'frH attondatifp, and several n<\dresses -were •,'iven I\v lueal rcprc-rcnta-the men and of hers. "SiT.Ssrertds -"aid thero w.i? oiii' daiipiv.Vnjv lie-siiivtcil to reiVr tn. Tcohnical instmction Tvas lipinp oimtrnllpd l>;. - too many separate bodies in (iiri-tohurrli. Jlp lioppd (bat soma juiovpnicni would lip mid? shortly 1u brinja , about thr aina/jMietion of Iho work done by the di/TprpDt bodies, <ir at nnyratn they would agree to co oiicvntc. and work on one scheiUD tliai. would moo'i tin , iwds ni the city and -nburbs. otherwise he was c-prtain there would he a {.rat \va>tr of money and unerjry. In reference to tpchnii-al rducalion in the wlony as a whole , , lio thought tlie marvellous progress made during thp lv<~t lev years *nu-r tlio p.issinjr of the Manual and Technical Ai.L »f 800 might he. gauged by looking at the total amount, being fmid by the ficnerai Governinf-nt towards tnchnical education. In moo it only amounted to '£3000 or J:4oon. whilst in n>os the GoTernmcrit expendod £34.77.->. and this year there was every indication that v larger amount would bo spent.