WELLINGTON WOOL CLASSES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 8

WELLINGTON WOOL CLASSES.

. PROPOSED COTJKSE.

.. At , the meeting of the Wellington Technical Education.Board Inst night the director requested that G2. applications for instruction in. the proposed .wool-classing and sortius .cour.se had- been received. '■They, might confidently- expect a class of at least 25 members. If more . attended a second class -would have to be formed, as .the 1 Government- regulations ,do not allow of riiore- than. 25,, students under one instructor in practical, work;y-Boom" for the.class could'probably I be. arranged for most chfcaply ••at ;one"-'of „"the wool stores. ■The equipment for. a class is estimated to cost £2i, and the salary of : an * instructor for two lessons', ger week for 20 freeks .would probably absorb JSIO. The income and expenditure are*estimated asfollows (exclusive 1 of • ; rent)lncome: Fees (23 students at - £2- each for the' -session of 20 - veefesj; j ; capitation (25 students in average attendance at «£l for 40- attendances)/ j r total, • X 75. Expenditure: Teacher's.salary (40 .lessons at ~1)> «£4O; -light and 'cleaning, etc., «£S; ..wool—cartage; 4o bales at 4s. each, insurance, J2150 at 12s/6d., sav, £1; wastage • on- -wool, say, -lOOltf. at'.'is., «£s';. incidental expenses, .£2 -15s. • total, £6110s. jTliere. shouM thus *be . a small profit on actual working expenses leaving out rent. ; mt. "J. P.- Luke, .Jf.Pv chairman of the board, said .he thought 'the board would be oiily too pleased 'to -facilitato the' holding; of .thosd classes;.especially in viewv of the ; rate*'at which ..the local wool sales had been developing.: Mi\ J.- G. W,. Aitkeii- moved' that the Department be approached for the necessary funds. Mr. Allan concurred, and 'said he was informed that-at Sydney. considerable pro-' fit was niade from these classes by selling the. wcol after it-had been, classed and repacked'. Mr. /U T . H. .Field, M.P., said that in the past^he'had strongly, urged the • Government-. to . send travelling instructors around the 'wool-sheds'in. the season. .It had been promised 'that the ; matter would be considered, but nothing j had been-done. -Since then classes had, ' he < believed, been established in "\Vangariui;.'and'Palukrston, North; A class in AVellington would do immense good, and would,- ho..thought, be, attended by . far-mers'-sons from the. neighbouring disi After ' further discussion Mr. Aitken's motion was carried unanimously.