Manual and Technical Training

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7809, 29 April 1905, Page 2

Manual and Technical Training

AMENDED REGULATIONS. The amended regulations regarding Manual and technical training have been handed to us by Uie Turanaki Chief Inspector (Mr Spencer) [or l*>rusal. For publ'ic school classes, instructed in elementary hand work, th' minimum period of •instruction f»»' the .icar to entitle schools To receive the lull grant is forty weeks. The number of hours' per week, however, has been reduced from two to one and a toajlf in the class.* from the primary to the second standard), and to one hour pel tteck above standard two. The fa!" grant has be«.n diminished !.. tfulsfc piimury to the second st'.iwlurd from Is per unit of average attendance to nin-.>|.euce ; in the third and fouiti. standards from 2s (id to Is ; and ii the filth and sixth standards froi. .is <i:l, <.r a possible maximum ol ;ls (id, to Is Ud. No grants in ai of apparatus are-allowed, but in-ere.i.-iil grants' "ill be given for th lirst \eir of recognition. A very commendable amendment i that "ifr-it uid" must now be accompanied by instruction in and health, and the grant has buea increas.-d from Us-(id to ss. In wood- [ work, cookery, dairying, etc., the uuiaber of pupils- that can be taken by one instructor has been increas-

oil. "Collage gardening" Is now a branch of elementary agriculture and pupils must give half Uie time to practical and experimental work. Apparatus, 'including spades, forks, ete.i, is to bo provided out of an initial grant of 10s per head up to £7 10s>. Similar grants are Ob'Ui'inable for what is tcnmdj •'elementary physical measurements."

Ttias will in a great measure tneel Uie demand for apparatus, in reaped of which the Turanaki Educalion Hoard recently agreed to grant subsidies on amounts raised by tchools.

The regulations dealing with continuation classes and technical subjects have not been materially altered.