WOOL-CLASSING CLASSES

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 333, 1 February 1911, Page 2

WOOL-CLASSING CLASSES

— We have received the two following letters from Mesrss Mackay and Mostyn Jones. The firm state that several farmers have asked them whether wool-classing classes could be established, and they th'nk one great advantage the farmer gains is a general knowledge of wool, which enables him to class bis wool when buying or selling sheep or buying rams, rather than at shearing time. Appended are the letters: Technic.il College, Auckland. Messrs Mackay and Jones, Te Kuiti. Gentlemen, —Yours of the loth inst., to the Secretary of the Board, has been forwarded to me. At the present time, no continuous instruction in wool-classing is given under the board. Short courses, however, are given at any centre where there is a demand for such. In May of last year, such a short course was held for a fortnight at Opotiki, the instructor being Mr J. W. Mullon, who is a wool-classing expert employed regularly by Messrs Murgatroyd Bros. This course proved a great success. If you have a sufficient number of farmers in your district who are willing to take up a fortnight's course of instruction at some convenient centre, such as Te Kuiti, I can arrange for the wool-classing instructor from Auckland to attend to give instruction. The cost to you for such a course would be £lo. This would be covered by fifteen farmers paying a fee of >i'l each. At the present time, we are unable to establish classes for wool-classing instruction under the regulations for manual and technical instruction, for the reason that the department will not recognise any class which has not received regular instruction during a period of at least ten weeks. I'erhaps you will write me further on the matter. —G. George, Director of Technical Education and Manual Training. Auckland, 25th January. Technical College. Auckland. Messrs Mackay and Jones, Te Kuiti. Gentlemen,- Yours of the 27th inst to hand. I have written to the woolclassing instructor--Mr J. W. Mullon —to ask him whether it would be possible to hold the classes at Te Kuiti once a week for a couple of months. I am afraid, however, that you will consider it too expensive, even if Mr Mullon is able to take the work, as it would necessitate his travelling to and from Te Kuiti each week, and the railway ticket, in addition to the hotel expenses, would therefore make the lesson rather costly to you. I will, however, communicate with you again as soon as I hear from Mr Mullon. —

G. George, Director of Technical Education and Manual Training. Auckland, January 2^th.