WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 3

WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL

The monthly meeting of the Board of Governors of the Technical College was held last evening, Mr. W. 11. Bennett in the chair. The new workshops will be opened by the Minister of Education on December

8. Regarding the delay in the completion of the workshops the chairman intimated that the Public Works Department was now pushing on the electrical work in view of the official opening. Mi forsvth reported that a deputation had waited on the Minister of Eduration respecting a grant towards the better payment of the instructors in .he commercial classes, ant had received a promise that (he matter would lie looked into. The board passed a. resolution of sympathv >especting the death of Mr. F. Picani, who, the chairman remarked, had always taken a deep interest in technical education. ... Reference was male in tbe directors report to the deaHi of Mr. Matter Hill, of Christ church, through whose encouragement and .active heln the first instruction in wool-classing had been given in Now Zealand at the Christchurch Technical College. Tho reference concluded: “As the result of (ho instruction which ho initiated in IM->. the small farmer in particular in this counter has received much creator returns for bis wool through the proper wcol-classifg and eradin" which such instruction has made possible.”