MELBOURNE WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE. EXHIBITS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 421, 20 November 1889, Page 5

MELBOURNE WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE. EXHIBITS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

At the invitation of Mr Campbell, the indefatigable and popular Secietary of the Working Men's College, a " Melbourne Herald " reporter visited that institution last week for the purpose of inspecting about 350 specimens of student handicraft These specimens form an exhibition on a email scale, and are being publicly exhibited at the college prior to their being cent to the N.Z. Exhibition. There are specimens of work done by tho students in modelling, plumbing, carpentry, graining, photography, ireehand drawing, aiehitectural drawing, mechanical dra.ving, and solid geometry. Tho drawing exhibits show the difleient stages of progress and the improvement made by t he students. The graining is very creditable work, several of tho panels being excellent. Most o: the panels in the modelling, which are cast in pla3ter of Paris from olay moulds, aie admirable. There are some capital specimens amongst the plumbing work. Three original designs for ceiling and man i el decorations, the worl- of Mr T. S. Monkhouse, the drawing instructor, are very beautiful. Mr J. R. Ryeroft, the graining ins ructor ; Mr (i. William", the modelling inst uctor; iMr J. W. ])ewar, the plumbing instructor ; and Mr B. Storer, the carpentry instructor, as well as their students, have furnished exhibits. All the .specimens show a considerable advance on those exhibited by the College students at the Centennial Exhibition. The improvement is most marked, and a number of panels are exceedingly meritorious. All the.se exhibits are the work of s'udents who hnve been receiving instrui tion at the institution frcm three months to two yeais, but most of them have not yet been at the College twelve months.