TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 475, 6 April 1909, Page 8

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

(BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Ctiristchurcii, April 3. In the course of his monthly report at the meeting of the Christchurch Technical Col : lege. the chairman (Dr. Hight) said that the InsDcctor-Goneral's report on his tour of inspection to Europe and America showed that in her expenditure on continuation and technical education New Zealand .was far behind other progressive countries, such as bwitzerland and the United States, even though her expenditure on .other branches of «ducaw on micrtt exceed theirs, and ho urged that New Zealand must be prepared "to set aside a much "reater proportion of the national revenue for the purposo of training our citizens for industrial warfare if they were to hold their own. In the interests or the Stato it was urgent that, if economies in buildings must be effected, they should be in buildings other than educational.: "It will matter very little," concluded Dr. Hight,, " whether some of us have to purchase our stamps a little longer in wooden post offices, or alight at small railway stations, but it does matter very much whether we give or not every encouragement to'our young people to equip themselves, as completely as possible for their work as future citizens."