WOOL-CLASSING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 249, 15 July 1919, Page 8

WOOL-CLASSING

POPULAR SUBJECT FOR SOLDIERS. Among the subjects taught to soldiers >by the ■ Vocational nut Educational Branch of the Defence Department, woo'J-classing seems to be one of the most popular. Some of Iho soldiers ar'e taking it up with a view to going into the wool business when their medical treatment, is complete, and they can bo discharged, but most of them secure this useful instruction with the idea of utilising the knowledge when they take up land.

Mr. W. T. Hambly, a wool-classing expert engaged by the Auckland Education Board, is making a tour of the North Island, giving instruction to soldiers and civilians. He made a start with a_ soldiers' class .'at the hospital at Komo Springs. His Auckland class for soldiers is well attended, and at Rotorna the soldier pupils numbered eighteen. The same expert may be engaged to give a course of instruction to the patients ct.Trentham orthopaedic hospital. His intensive course extends over a fortnight.

In Christchurch a special instructor lias been appointed to, hold classes for soldiers only, and tho uso of a -wool-store owned by one of the large firms has been secured. As a largo'number of soldiers havo expressed a, desiro to attend, this class will be well attended. At Hanmer, where instruction is given in farming generally, a wool-shed is being built for the purpose of -wool-sorting classes. The manager of tliis training farm was formerly an instructor at Lincoln College. Instruction in wool-classing for the soldier patients at Timaru is to bo given at the Technical School., and liere_again a large class is anticipted. There is also a well-attended class in tho earn esubject at the Dunedin Technical School.