TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1801, 14 July 1913, Page 10

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

AUSTRALIAN STYLE & OURS. (By Telegraph.—Special, Correspondent.) Wanganui, JuJy 12. Tho pastoral industry provided material for a good deal of discussion at tho monthly meeting of tho Wanganui Technical College Committee last • evening, when some interesting statements' were made by Chief Inspector Braik, who has jnsfc returned from a visit to Australia. Mr. Braik remarked upon the great attention which is given in Australia to wool-classing. So highly wsro tho instructional methods of Australia valued that the wool-classing classes in Sydney were attended by pupils from as far away as Japan and South Africa. Mr. A. Robinson, a member of tho com-' mittee, said that perhaps the reason -why New Zealand farmers did not support such classes was that they did not know'whether wool-classing paid them or not. Ho had been classing his own wool for fourteen years, and even yet did not know if it paid him. He certainly got a better price per pound, but ho thought that if he sent his wool Home unclassed ho would possibly get a belter return .through the elimination of wool-classing charges. The committee then turned its attention to sheep shearing, and' in this case it was shown that the shearing classes were appreciated, the Chief Inspector instancing i the class at Hawera, whero tho work of tho students was so good that numbors of small farmers sent their sheep to tho technical classes to have them shorn, and some of tho students, who had been going out shearing on their own account had been able to earn good money. Another < successful class at Hawera was that for orchard work. The students of this class had been so excellently instructed that their services for pruning private orchards were in. demand. Speaking of the proposed agricultural college, tno Chief Inspector, who recently visited the colleges of Victoria, South Australia, and New South Wales, estimated that the establishment of such an institution in New Znaland would cost .£50,000, independent of the land. Ho based this estimate' on Australian examples, and it of courso included a thorough equipment of stock, instruments, ctc»j in Addition to tlio build - EE: ! !