TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 23 May 1911, Page 7

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

A meeting of the committee of the New Plymouth Technical College was held hist night. Present: Messrs. P. P. Corkill (chairman), C. E. Baker, N. K. MacUiarmid, T. Francis, G. H. Dolby, H. J. Gilbert, W. A. Ballantyne (director), I<\ J. Heatley (organiser), and Sullivan (secretary). An apology was received from Mr. E. Griffiths. The organiser's report for the month stated that the total number of individual students was now 100, thirtyone being free students. The rural classes had lilled well, and promised to be successful. Some of the employers in the town were showing interest in practical form by encouraging their env. ployces to attend, some five additional! students being forthcoming from one office. As many of the students had registered as senior cadets it would be] a good thing to arrange to have them allotted to a unit, called College Cadets. The committee could then arrange for parades so as not to clash with the classes, at the same time encouraging esprit de corps. The buildings and grounds committee (Messrs. MacDiannid and Dolby) reported that they had visited the school. They recommended that the lawns be attended to and the bare patches re-sown; that the hole in the drive be lilled; the drive and the front of the school gravelled; that the hedge on the Pcndarves street be completed and the other hedges trimmed and cleaned; that the Education Board be asked to provide necessary trees and gravel; that ns the locus standi of the committee seemed extremely doubtful, the secretary be asked to write to the director, asking him to convey the recommendations of the committee to the caretaker, requesting him to see that they are carried out before next meeting' of the committee. It was reported that the caretaker had declined to meet the committee on the occasion of their visit.—The report was adopted.

Tin.', matter of arranging classes so that they would not be too greatly disarranged by the holding of senior cadet drills was discussed, hut consideration was deferred.