SPEECH BY HON. FOWLDS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8832, 7 June 1907, Page 2

SPEECH BY HON. FOWLDS.

Plausible Plea for Endowment. Press Association. New Plymouth, Juno (?. To-day Hon. G. Fowlds opened New Plymouth Technical School in the presence of a largo gathering. There are already 191 students exclusive of seventy teachers attending Saturday classes and COO .in school classes. Mr Fowlds, in his remarks, said that modern education methods endeavoured to make instruction fit the .circumstances and life of the pupils. Nei7 Zealand had lagged behind for some time in this matter, but was now coming up to' modern ideas. Ho considered that employers could do much to make the classes of full value by offering increases in salary to employees reaching certain stages of efficiency. Tho revolution in secondary education, making secondary schools no longer preserves of the wealthy, was costing" much money, and unless the people of the colony were prepared to make substantial endowment for education, tho pruning knife would have to be used.