TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 10

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

WORK OF ART STUDENTS ITS VALUE IN LIFE Last evening members of the Parents’ Auxiliary and friends paid a visit to the art school at the King Edward Technical College, where the staff had arranged special classes and displays to show something of the full scope of the school’s activities. Much of interest was to bo seen in work of the various classes in needlecraft, etching, commercial art, life drawing, crafts, window dressing, pottery, and junior group work. The visitors favourably commented on the excellent workmanship shown by the junior pupils, who, under the guidance of Miss Moran, had made a largo number of children’s garments from old material. Permission had been obtained to send these to London as a gift from the pupils of the college to their less fortunate fellows there. In a short address before the tour of inspection, Mr Gordon Tovey spoke of the growth of the school’s' activities since it had been housed in its new quarters, and pointed out that, while providing training in art for Dunedin, it now attracted students from as far south as Invercargill. With the formation of new classes to meet the demand, its 10 rooms (thought more than adequate a few years ago) now proved to be barely sufficient for the school’s needs. : In describing the work of the classes the parents were to see Mr Tovey said he wished to stress the increased opportunities for employment open to those students studying commercial art brought about by the imposition of import restrictions, Continuing, he emphasised the cultural value of the school at such a time as the present, and said that every effort was being made to provide the students with the necessary background to enable them to make full use of those cultural pursuits which, when peace and serenity return, are to build a new world.