Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1895. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5095, 5 August 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1895. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

• + - ♦ • The report of tho Committee appointed by the Jlastorton Town Lands Trustees on technical education is so much better than we expected it tobothatweare prepared to accept it entjlolo. We hope to see it carried out by tho men to whom the project is due. If the proposed expenditure oil tho now Town Hall stands in the way of the technical school we would by all imeans cut down the estimate for tlio Hall rather than sacrifico the technical school. We will only add one suggestion, tho Drill Hall is a miserable building to use as a technical school, Let a more suitablo Hall or schoolroom be hired for the first year, and if there bo a difficulty as to ways and means ask the public to pay tho rent, The public will pay a charge of this kind cheerfully in order to see a technical school working under good auspices. Wo would collect the rent ourselves if it became necessary to do so. Of course, if classes are formed undor tho proposed regulations, oxporicnco will suggest nny desirable niodilications, but tho outline of the scheme as draftedis good enough as a working plan to start upon. The more apparont difficulties of tho enterprise have been fairly thought out and provided for. It would bo easy to suggestcontingentdifficulties, but it is very undesirablo to do so. When there are half-a-dozen earnest men anxious to formulate o scheme and to carry it out, and they display ft fair amount of common sense in the way they go to work, it is a wise thing to give them their head and let tjiem go! When any good- work is proposed tho right thing to do is to hejp rather than tq hi)idei'| aijd wo liopethe Trustees thcjiigplyps will 1.0,0k uppn tl|p report in this spirit, Ouv'own fooling is that the public of Jlastorton are very much [indebted to tho mombovs ofltlip | Committee for supplying them with

a well-defined project of a practical character, and that every encouragement should be given to these mom hers to cany out the scheme which tiiey have so ably planned. The Evening Post The says the quest-ion of PuoHiiirnoN Prohibition should Question, be fought out once for all, and hero we with our Wellington contemporary, although we are much more sympathetic with the Prohibitionists than it is. The present fooling ought to stop! Mr Seddon is no friend of the Temperance Party and it would be far better for him to come out in his truo colours and light it, than to make pretences of serving it. The Temperance Party is a littlo weak in the backbone, and needs the stimulus of a little opposition. It lias boon patted on the lieiul by tlio Government, while at the same time everybody knows that the drink traffic is more loosely conducted than ever it was, and that for this state of things the Government is responsible. Two houses have been An burnt within the last Inquiry week, and people are Needed talking. They are saying tilings which we do not care to print, but which satisfy us that a strict enquiry is needed, When losses of this kind are not accounted for, there should be an Inquest! A proper investigation, even if no one be culpable, does good, because it protects innocent persons from the tongue of scandal. On the other hand if tliora he ground for suspicion, it is a culpable act on the part of the authorities, or of the persons interested, to waive inquiry, i