TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
By Telegraph—Press Association
NEW PLYMOUTH, June 6,
To-day the Hon. G. Fowlds opened the New Plymouth Technical School in the presence of a large gathering. The building is of brick, and was erected by the Taranaki Education Board out of a £2,700 departmental grant and the remainder to be raised from local bodies and contributions. A number of addresses were delivered. There are already 191 students, exclusive of 70 teachers, attendingthe Saturday classes, and 600 in the school classes. The Hon. G Fowlds, in his remarks, said that modern educational methods endeavoured to make . instruction fit the circumstances and life of pupils. New Zealand had lagged behind for some time in this matter, but was now coming up to modern ideas. He considered that employers could do much to make the classes of full value by offering increases in salary to employees reaching certain stages of efficiency. The revolution in secondary education was making secondary schools no longer the preserves of the wealthy. It was costing much money, and unless the people of the colony were prepared to make substantial endowments for education purposes the pruning knife would have to be used.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8458, 7 June 1907, Page 5
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194TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8458, 7 June 1907, Page 5
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