MANUAL TRAINING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 5

MANUAL TRAINING

Need For Proper Facilities Lack of adequate . facilities for manual training at the Napier Intermediate School, in contrast to those oifering at other intermediate schools in the Dominion, was commented upon to the Hawke's Bay Education Board this morning by the new' principal, Mr F. R. Slevin. It was decided to apply to the Education Board for the establishment of a full manual training centre at Napier. Mr, Slevin commented that manual classes at the school, such as metal work. dressmaking, art and cooking, were being ccmducted under serious difficulties, owing to the lack of both olassroom space and facilities for the work, If a manual centre were established in the school g'rounds, • they would be easy of access to the pupils and near the cqnstant supervision of the principal. The abolition of the profioiency examination, added Mr. Slevin, had opened wider fields of instruction. Ridded °f the neoessity of keeping a uniform standard of instruotion, the principal was.able to embark upon the arrangement of wide and variant oourses. Mr. G. A. Maddison, chairman of the ooard, commented that the Napier In-. fcermediate School had been constructed during the reorganisation of education tn Hawke's Bay after the earthquake. In the intermediate schools which would shortly ■ be constructed at Hastings and Gisborne, full provision would be made for manual training in all its secfcions, Mr, Maddison moved that the board recommend to the Education Department tliat a full manual training centre for Napier scboolg be established at fche Intermediate • School. The motion was seconded by Mr. G. H. Cooke and carried.