PETONE TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 8

PETONE TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

■ The monthly . meeting, of the managers of tie J'ctono ' Technical School Board was .held .last .evening. . .There. were'.Tpwf '■ feeptl?ev. cA. Thomson. . (chairman),' ; Roots, List, Newland, . Jl'Kenzie, - 1 Tru&f man, and Hope: ■: : -V The director'' (Mr. J. II: Lynskey) ro. ported that during tho' month an open night had;-, been 'hold, ■ atid; a'-ilargo: nurii- . her of people took'the opportunity of looking 'oy.er' thp school. ...Something' bright • 1»' dono next year in tho direction of. . ; separate open nights for the various Glasses or groups of classes as tho present arrangement, had' certain drawbacks. : One' of the classes had' completed work for' tlifi' year, and. the wholo would fininh . shortly, .. At -tiysf" hoped. to lie. ablo (o bring down a-report' on the work of the year, together with the. reports o? the various instructors, "and would take that Qppdrtunjfy to'/'point out in. what directions the school inisrht extend its work. It.was proposed to tako a ■teafn. 6f 17-Technical School cade's.' t.o Christchurch pn' iiecember ~26.' and '2.7 to compete ill six .com.netitipijis at the niffi'- ■ tary. tournameni. . They had been train- . ing' at 5.30 a.m. for tho past three weeks. He- would suggest.that the Iward should sanction thfc' cadet. Lcortipajij"' opening"' a subscription list tp help tq. defray '*Xj-. : peases.' A Mirther of Pupils had gjyjrfcsgi_' ed a desire :tb '.hold a Asocial" at the end.'., of flie year, and lie th'oupht that mighty :be lipid in the Drill Piled without any Cast to the board'.. ■ It 'frSs resolved?' that-. "Separate -.open';:, nights' foj HiS. -varipus.: classes;be.ta.M next; year.. ' . ...,.. ' .. . It was tilsp 'resolved, to .'sanction tho . ..issue of a subscription list-, to . assist.' to defray the expenses of the cadets going to \ . Christehurr.il. The following donations towards tfie fpiids of tho school. we;fe received :«-GeaiS Meat Co., .£25; Wellington Woftllen' C 0.., ,£5: Pctone Bornu?li Council) "J!30.; Hutt Borough. Council, .£2O.