WOOL CLASSING

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13936, 15 July 1919, Page 1

WOOL CLASSING

POPULAR SUBJECT FOR SOLBIERS. WELLINGTON, This Day. Among -the great variety of sublets taught to soldiers by the Vocational and Educational Training Branidh of the Defence Department, ivool-classing seems to be, one of the aaost popular. Some of the soldiers ire taking it xrp with a view to' gong into the wool- :business • when their (mieddcal treaitmaniti is complete 1, and they can be discharged, bait most of them -secure this useful instruction! with the idea of utilising, knoiwledige whenr they take up [and, under Government assistance, and become farmers. Mr. W._ T. Hambly, a wool-class-ing expert 'engaged.by the Auckland Education 'Boaird, is ■niiaik'ing a tour of the North Island, giving! 'nstr.uc.iion to (Soldiers «md ■; civilians. He made a good start with a soldiers' class at the hospital at Katno [Springs. Hiis Auckland! class for soldiers* is 'well attended, and at Rotoruia the vsoldier pupjlg numbered eighteen. The same expert will be engaged to give a course of .instruction to the patients at Trentham Orthopaedic Hospital. His intjensive couinse, extending over a fortnight, enables the paipus to ob-. tain a good grasp yf the .object. --• , In Chrietchurch a special instructor has been appointed to hold classes for soldiers only, and the use of' a wool store owned by one of the-large" firms has foeem secured. As a large numfoer of soldiers ha,vs expressed a desire to attend, this class will be well at-tended. At' Hanmer, where 'Instruction -s gaiven in farming genierally, a wool shed is being 'built for the purpose of Jwool-sortiing! classes. The manager of this farm, w£o WJ*S formc-r----ly an instructor at Lincolni College, has written" a book on "the subject of ■wool-classing, which he hopes 1 the Agricultural Department will publish. A.simple teart>foook on this branch of farming knowledge wild be greatly appreciated 'by many soldiers who are desirous of taking up farming. ... » Instruction in wooi-classing for the soldier patiemts at T'imanu- is to be,given 1 at the Technical School, and here again a large class is anticipated. There to also a wellattended class in., the same subject at the Dunedin. Technical School. The interest created by these class:e s among [returned soldiers will, it is hoped, induce a number of 'the-.i to settle on the land. If tLcy be- ! come farmers the fcnowiedge gamed 1 will !be of 'subfttainit.tal .value Iwhen they have''wool sheds of their, ovn.