The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1896. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 266, 15 May 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1896. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

«. Good work in the direction of technical education is being done in Otago. We learn from the Dunedin Star that those students of the technical classes who sat for the examination of the City of London Guild's Institute, with which the principal technical schools of the colony have been affiliated, completed their papers, and the practical part of their work has been forwarded through the local Education Board to the examiners in London. In the carpentry section the papers were designed to test the students' theoretical knowledge, and the questions dealt with the ordinary and honors grades. None of the pupils were sufficiently advanced to attempt practical work, bat that will in all probability be taken in hand next year. Three carpenters and five plumbers sat for the ordinary certificates. In the plumbers' section, besides answering a scries of printed questions designed to test their acquaintance with sanitation matters, they were tested at four hours' practical work in constructing the head of a gutter with internal and external angles " bossed " up to five inches, and had to make an ordinary sanitary soil pipe with branches. We have the assurance of competent tradesmen outside the supervisors that the whole of

j the practical work was creditable alike to instructor and pupil. It will thus be seen that the Technical Classes Association in thus working up to a high standard are fulfilling the aim with which the institution was originally formed. What has succeeded in Dunedin might with advantage be attempted in other parts of the colony.