AN EXAMPLE WORTH FOLLOWING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2128, 24 October 1885, Page 2

AN EXAMPLE WORTH FOLLOWING.

The technical classes in connection with the Tokomairiro High School are getting along famously under the direction of the Rector. The boys studying chemistry are now at work on the analysis of soils. They are getting quite at home with the manipulation of agents and re-agents, .and will very soon be able to put their fathers up to some valuable wrinkles as to how they should manure their land, and what crop they should put into it, In the carpentry department capital progress has been made. The more advanced have some very neat and handy bookshelves approaching completion. They are. well fitted together, and nicely finished, and will prove ornamental to the parlor at home. Each is adorned with fretwork, cut to designs by Mr Reid, with a machine contrived by him for the purpose. Mr Reid has ingeniously fitted up an old black board frame and stand for this work. In the frame of the board is fixed a frame saw, which can be easily turned to present its cutting edge in any direction. The frame works up and down like a window sash; the downward motion, which does the cutting, is accomplished by means of ft and the upward by hisflry sprftg," l " Reid's cqnt[iyans> is, worth patenting, , and answers the purpose admirably. An? other batch of boys are engaged in % manufacture of desks for their pwtl private use, and are cloing tjieir' wwk well. Wehaye much pffr nouncmg the classes a most decided success. As, however, we indulged in a little good-humoureci baiter at the outset, we think it right to say that as a general thing such clashes would, prove im.pra(itl« cable. Few pedagogues are, like, Mr Reid, good all round men,'and we are persuaded that not one in a hundred could teach boys chemistry and carpentry, and discharge other duties as well,— 11 Bruco Herald.'