TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 5

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

MEETING OF BOARD The Board of Managers of the Seddon Memorial Technical College met yesterday afternoon, Mr. H. S. W. King presiding over a .small attendance of members. Advice has been received from the High Commissioner in London stating that Miss Violet Pilling, A.R.C.A., who has been appointed art instructress to the college, is to sail for New Zealand by the Corinthic to-morrow. A letter was received from the Southland Technical College desiring the co-operation of the board in protesting against the department’s new restrictive policy in the issue of free school season tickets on the railways. It was felt that the department was adopting a short-sighted policy, and was inflicting hardship on country parents by trying to compel them to send their children to the nearest school, even if that school does not offer the desired course of instruction. Discussion was deferred. Considerable discussion arose in connection with the matter of night school for apprentices. Mr. C. A. Watts expressed the opinion that it was unreasonable to require a young boy to spend three hours at night school after a heavy day’s work at his trade. The present congestion at the college necessitates this state of affairs. It was decided to invite the Plumbers’ Apprentices Committee to meet the rincipal of the college in conference with a view to a solution of the difficulty . A proposal that the Technical College students should attend the service to be held in the Town Hall on the afternoon of Anzac Day as a united school was objected to by the head master on principle. He said that, in his opinion, pupils should be allowed to attend the service with their parents if they so desire, and no compulsion should be placed on the scholars. The board agreed that this was the right course 1,, be taken.