TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1218, 10 March 1914, Page 3

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

LOCAL COOKING & WOODWORK classes.

The Chairman of the local State school committee has received a communication from Mr J. Matthews, supervisor of technical education for the southern district of the Wanganui Board, making enquiries re cooking class at the local school. Mr Matthews says : “The Board considers that the pupils of your school be afforded the same opportunities in this direction as are given to those at a number of centres. There is little doubt that the Board would have inaugurated cooking classes for the girls and woodwork for the boys long since had there been a room for the purpose. “I shall be very much obliged if you will kindly confer with your committee and headteacher as to starting the above named classes and discussing the problem of suitable accommodation. I might point out that if a new building were erected the Department would pay half the cost of erection and furnish it. If you favour the idea, do you think the residents would respond to the call for raising the necessary funds ?

“If a suitable building could be rented the Department would pay the rent and provide the furnishings. Even it you decide to erect a building it would be better to rent a room this year (provided one is available) as the raising of the money and the erection of the building must take several months.’’

The subject will be discussed at the next meeting of the committee.