TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1461, 8 June 1912, Page 11

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

0 MEETING OF THE BOARD. A meeting of tho Wellington Technical Education board was held last night, Mr. D. Robertson presiding. There were also present Messrs. J. P. Luke, J. G. W. Aitkcn, W. H. Field, G. Frost, and D. M'Laren. Tho work done by the Finance Committee, was approved. A letter was received from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers regarding the question of establishing an Advisory .board of Control in connection with (ho engineering classes. After some discussion the principle was affirmed, but it was decided to defer the matter until the director could report on the whole matter at the uext meeting. The Wellington Provincial Industrial Association wrote stating that unless the vent for the Industrial Hall and office, amounting to .Cll6 I.ls. Id., was paid within one month, it would bo sued for. It was decided to take legal advice on tho subject. A letter from the lieutenant commanding the Wellington Technical School Cadet Corps asked if the board would contribute a trophy for competition among the cadets. It was decided to reply that the registrar had been instructed to inquire if the members of the board were prepared to contribute individually. The director was instructed to spend ,£IOO on improvement? to the library, and it was decided to apply to tho Education Department for a grant. 'the quarterly report, which was adopted, slated, inter alia, that taking all the associated classes, the average attendance of students was 87.3 cent, of the attendances possible, i.e.. "arranged for by the students. On the whole, this result is not unsatisfactory, and shows that a considerable improvement has taken place in the last few years. The improvement is undoubtedly duo in part to the moderate compulsion under which free-place students attend, but it is by no means entirely due to this. Mainly the improvement, is attributed to the fact that the students are younger on the average, and a much larger proportion take definite courses with the object of nreparincr seriously for some particular calling. These students are always the most regular attenders.