MARTON—AN OBJECT LESSON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 27 August 1907, Page 2

MARTON—AN OBJECT LESSON.

■ ♦ Marton possesses about the same population as Foxton, roughly 1500. It also possesses the necessary essential to progress, public spirited citizens. Its Municipal Opera House is one of the best appointed of any provincial town in the Dominion —an evidence of wide-awake citizenship ; its municipal coal-gas works is now a profit - earning concern; the general appearance of the town creates a very favourable impression upon the visitor, and gives further evidence of capable civic government. Recently an agitation was afoot there to erect a technical school for the further training of its youth, with the result that a building has been erected at a cost of of which the citizens contributed ,£230. The building was officially opened on Saturday last by the Minister for Education, the Hon G. Fowlds. The school contains four large class rooms, well lighted and ventilated. One is provided with a range, and will be devoted to cookery instruction. Another is fitted with carpenters’ benches for the manual training work, while the others are for commercial and science classes. There is accommodation for one hundred and thirty pupils, and the buidling presents a handsome exterior. Such progress in our neighbouring borough bumps us very hard. What Marton has done and is doing can be accomplished in Foxton if we would only put out our hands and realise that we are awake.