TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1918, Page 4

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

DO MINION' SUPIi RINTENDJENT “ ' APPOINTED. ’ .The announcement was made on Saturday that Mr W. S. La Trobe, wlio for the. past fourteen years lias been Director of the Wellington Technical College, has received the appointment of Superintendent .of 'Technical Education for the Dominion, at a salary* of £7OO per annum. . . “Mr La Trobe, whose father-, now a, .resident of Takapuna, Auckland, was :ono of the Auckland settlers; was born at Ngaroto, in tlio Waikato, IS years ■ago, and received'his education at the. Paterangi School, Auckland Gramniar School, Auckland. Training-.Cpllege, and Cambridge spent ten years in tlio Old Country, and for eight years of that .period was lecturing and . teaching.-iti the engineering

school at University, .under Prof esso? JA. Ewing (now'Sir James, Ewing, present . President of Edin- , burgh University - ). Mr La Trobe’s; ■i tutor.at*St John’s College,"Cambridge,- ■ i-was Dr.'(now Sir} ; Donald Macalist-i'; ’( who is' the 'present; President - of Glasgow University. While he was in t AHicklaud, Mr'La Trobe took his M.A. degreesj -witLsHonours in Mathematics ■- and liathemaUcal physics, tud when He . went. to Cam bridge lie took Abe

Mechanical-Science Tripos (I irst-efass TloriQiirs in Fafts .1 and 2), and gained liisiLi.' degrce -tlrdro. During, the titiidhe was,at Home he- was appointed to take cluirge .cifr the Technical Col- . ;.lege. in,;W;&ningtoiij ,a position-which, / ability. Ilis many friends will be verygrat.iHed to hear;that..the authorities have % .rSioguise.dj.'.his excellent record in 1 with technical education. Dr. Anderson"•(.Director of Education) ’'told a Wellington" Post ” .reporter that one of Mr.fja Trobe’s first duties,-in consultation/with the Di- • rectorApJ Education, -.‘would be the aration of the whole basis of

the maintenance of technical schools, ; -with-the object>af arriving at siime pruvciple of ready application which • would secure at least, ‘equally efficient control, and won Id much dimmish the amount of clerical work that was now .'unavoidable in the technical schools themselves and- in the Department’s offices, ~ ' " - - ..•.Under, the /Director of Education Mr La Trobe. will have charge of the general administration of the technical education work of .the Department.', ■- .arid will be also practically chief-.in-spector of technical.schools. ....- •;. Dr /\uderson'-spoke Highly -of Mr 1 :La Trobe’s broad and deei>;knp.wledge ! - ‘of technical education from the viewI.L points of the schools aud the country’s [•: industries. The supeiiiitendeut snould / be able 16 give valuable advice to the Repatriation Board aud other organisations on the use of technical schools ..-for the training of returned soldiers