TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 9 June 1910, Page 5

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

CARAVANS R)ll THE COUNTRY. v By Telegraphs-Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At to day's meeting of the Education Hoard the Director of Technical Education in Auckland (Mr. George George) submitted a report on the extension of manual training and domestic science to country districts. He suggested that the local Hoard should employ travelling teachers autl travelling equipment, and •he recommended socially constructed caravan, somewhat similar to those used by tourists and gipsies in the Old Country for the transportation from place to place of the equipment required. A special itinerant teacher for ea h hnn;h would be appointed. The caravans would then be convevcd to a certain school, the equipment taken out and placed oitli-r n the school room or in some local fci.ii, hired for th 1 luirpose, ;r, in cass (if a last extremity, in a tent which would be carried in (lie caravan. Bv this means he believed that a maximum benefit would be received bv country pupils at a mimnmum ixi>ense, and he suggewed that the Department be approached at once for the necessary funds to provide two caravans, one for woodwork, and one for cookerv and equipment. T'.e report was referred for consideration to the next meeting of the Board.