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Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 370

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these have been continued up to the present time with such alterations and additions as have been found necessary. The work done has received the cordial support of the public bodies of the district without whose financial support it could not have been maintained. The following is a. list of the contributors with the amount of their annual contribution :—: — Christchurch City Council £300 0 0 Selwyn County Council 50 0 0 A. &P. Association 20 0 0 Woolston Borough Council 12 10 0 Sumner Borough Council 10 10 0 Christchurch Drainage Board 10 0 0 Chamber of Commerce 10 10 0 Industrial Association 10 0 0 Employers' Association 10 0 0 Trades and L,abour Council 10 0 0 Riccarton Road Board 10 0 0 Trades Unions 20 3 0 New Brighton Borough Council 5 5 0 During the present year classes have been held in the following subjects :—

Principles and Practice of Carpentry and Joinery, Plumbing, Coachbuilding, Cabinetmaking, Tailors- cutting, Dress-cutting, and Woolclassing ; Building Construction, Builders' Quantities, Drawing, Practical Geometry, Practical Mathematics, Applied Science, Shorthand, Book-keeping, Commercial Correspondence, Commercial Geography, Commercial Arithmetic, Typewriting, English, French, and German.

When the proposal was made to expand the institution to the dimensions of a fitting Seddon Memorial, the Board of Education granted for the site of the new buildings an acre of land at the corner of Barbadoes street and Moorhouse avenue. The site is now the centre of the industrial quarter of Christchurch, and there is ample room for expansion. At a large and representative meeting summoned by the Mayor it was resolved, with only one dissentient, to adopt the Technical College as a local memorial to Mr. Seddon. This, with the addition of an Assembly Hall, Reading Room and Technological Museum,

a Wool department, and a Smith's workshop, will be complete enough to form a worthymemorial to the Statesman whose sympathy with the workers was so keen, and of whose policy the development of technical education formed so large a part. Provision will there be made for thoroughly equipping the workers for their callings and for the cultivation of those wider and more intellectual and social interests which are of such importance in the training of the citizen.