IN HOSPITAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1919, Page 3

IN HOSPITAL.

.VOCATIONAL AND CURATIVE TRAINING. SOUTH ISLAND ARRANGEMENTS. Wellington, Feb. 5. Arrangements for curative work for useful occu£ation and where advisable vocational training of soldier patients who will be in hospital at Chmtchurch and Hammer are well in hand, as shown, by the report oi the officer in charge oi this subject, who witli Lieut. Colonel Christie recently visited Hanmer and the Chalmers Ori'a&jiaedic Hospital in Christchurch. A carpenters' shop has been provided at iUnuier which will 3'erve ior carpentry and other occupations. It is intended to provide instructors in bootmaking and tailoring. The carpentery instructor is already at work. it is proposed to give instruction In motor car repairing, and there are several earn to be maintained which will providi:. good opportunities for instruction. It is intended to appoint an instructor in accountancy, and also for teaching primary and secondary subjects. As Hanmer is isolated, there will be difficulty in getting an instructor in university subjects, but it may be possible to get a school-master with university degrees who can. take the whole range of education. Land has been acquired to provide opportunities for instruction in farming for those patients who will for the open-air work. The Y.M.GiA, lias undertaken to build a recreation club at Hanmer. Equipment for the making of spHnts and other appliances for the wounded, including surgical boots, has been obtained from England, and the erection of the machinery at the Orthopaedic hospital for this- work was almost completed at the time of the visit There is also a good carpenters' sho-p and a room for other occupational training. Mrs Templer has been appointed in charge of occupational work. She hat already done valuable service in a voluntary capacity, and has now been placed on salary, and given an assistant Professor Hight has taken a great deal of trouble over the arrangement of university education classes, and as the vocational officer temporary Captain Mooro iB himself an M.A. of Canterbury College, it is anticipated that there will be no difficulty in completing the matter. A satisfactory arrangement was mjutf; in regard to primary and secondary education, the director of technical instruction offering to provide the necessary instructors in these subjects. Tins director of agriculture has offered to give every facility for his officers to provide farming instruction, and Lincoln College was visited to discuss the mattet with the director, Mr Alexander. He ottered to personally give lectures on the breeds and management of sheep, and thought that Dr Hildendorf would give lectures on r.lie rotation of erous and other farming matters. The director of technical instruction, Mr Howell, subsequently informed the officer in charge of vocational' draining that he eouM make arrangements for lectures on farming subjects to the soldiers cither at the hospital or the technical college. The vocational officer in Christchurch is now arranging for this to be done, so that full provision has been made for instruction in all branches of farming. Doubtbss arrangements can be made later on for the completion of the training In a practical way on State or private farms.