New Plymouth Technical School.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43102, 8 June 1907, Page 3

New Plymouth Technical School.

SPEECH BY MR EOWLDS, (By Telegraph—-Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. On Thursday the Hon, G. Fowlds opened the New Plymouth Technical School. The building is of brick, erected by the Taranaki Education Board, partly out of a £2700 Departmental grant, and the remainder being r tised from local bodies’contributions. There was a large assemblage of the general public, and addresses were d livered by the Minister, the chairman of the Technical Committee, Messrs H. 01; ey, M.H.R., W. E. Spencer (edi f or -J the School Journal, and until iceotly director of technical education Imre), the chairman of the High School Board, and the Mayor of-New I'iymouth. . There are already 191 srubnts, exclusive of 70 teachers attending Saturisy classes, and 600 in the school classes. Mr Fowlds, in his remarks, said that modern educational methods endeav ured to make instructiion fit the <■: i cumstances and life of the pupi's. New Z'-aland had lagged behind for Mime tim in this matter, but was now <-. tiling up to modern ideas. Tie cons dered tha’ employe s c mid do muc-li <o make the (lasses of full value by offering increases in salary to employees wlm readied certain stages of efficiency. The revolution in secondary education wis making the secondary schools no longer the preserves of the wealthy. It was costing much money, and unless the people of the colony r were prepared 'omake substantial endowments f r education he pruaing-knife would h ivs to be used.

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