CURATIVE WORK FOR SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 114, 7 February 1919, Page 8

CURATIVE WORK FOR SOLDIERS

VOCATIONAL TRAINING. Arrangements for curative work for useful occupation and. where advisable, vocational training of soldier patients who will be in hospital at Christchurcli and Hanmer are well in hand, as shown bv the report of the officer in charge of this subject, who with Lieutenant-Colonel Christie recently visited Hanmer. and the Chalmers Orthopaedic Hospital m ChristA carpenters' shop has been provided at Hanmer, which will serve for carpentry nnd other occupations. It is intended to urovide instructors in bootmalang and tailcTing. The enruentery instructor _is alreadv at work. It is proposed to give instruction in motor-car repairing, ami (here are several cars to be mainataecl which will provide good opportunities for instruction. It is intended to appoint an instrntcor in accountancy, and also for teaching primary and secondary suhiects. 4s Hanmer is isolated, there, wII be difficulty in getting an instructor in university subjects, but it may be .possibl» to "«et a schoolmaster with universty deprWs who con Mo the whole

range of education. ~ Lund lias ten acquired to provide.opportunities for instruction in f» for those patients who will be fit for tue work. The Y.M.C.A. has undertaken to build a recreation club at "Equipment for the making of splints and other appliances for the wounded, including surgical Iwnts has been obtain, ed from England, anil tie ereotion of the machinery at the Orthopaedic Hospital for this wnrk was almost completed at the time of the visit. There w also* good carpenters' shop and n room loi other occupational training. Mrs. Jenpler has been appointed in chaige ot occupational work. She has already done valuable service in n voluntary capacii .}. ami has now been placed on salary, and f-ivon an .nwistont. Vvo essor Eight line taken a great deal of trouble over the an i ß eme D nt of university educational classes, and as the vocational officer Temporary Captain Moore, is. himself aa M.A of Canterbury Colle ß e, it is anti apated that there will be no difficulty in completing the matter. ' A .satisfactory arrangement was made in lecard to primary and secondary-emi-to Rive every facility for .his officers to provide farming instruction, and Lincoln ! (V.lle-o was visited to discuss the matter wiUi"the Director, Mr. Alexander. He offered to personally, give lecture!, on the )),ceds and maniißemeot of sheep, nnrt "bought that Dr. ffildcndor| would B«e lectures on the rotation of crops and other fanning mattes. Thei Director of Technical Instruction, Jlr. Howell subkSy'informed.the officer in char ß e of vocational traimns that he could make arrangements for lectures on farminK eiibjects to tho soldiery either at the hospital or the technical*college.. The vocational officer in Chr.stchurch is now arranging for this to be done, eo that ft if provision has been made or instruc tion in all branches of farming. Doubt lefs arrangements can be made, later or for the completion of tho training in I practical way on State or private farms