Someone Stems the Tide

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 32

Someone Stems the Tide

Electricity in Schools "THE tide of progress appears to have left the Hducation Department: unaffected. They have considered it unnecessary to install an electric stove for the instruction of the girls attending the Wellington Technical College. In replying to an application for funds to install electric cookers the Department refused on the ground that there were many free demonstrations in the city from which tuition might be ‘obtained. They admitted that electric stoves were widely used, and that cookery demonstration rooms should be equipped with them. , It seems that the Department is begging the question. Tor one thing, schoolgirls are seldom free at the time demonstrations are held, and they do not allow for the practice that makes perfect. The chairman of the Board of Governors commented on the anomaly of having one Government Department doing all it can to encourage the use of electricity, with another Department refusing to. grant facilities to en-able-the girls to learn how to cook electrically. It was, however, unanimously decided by the governors, on the motion of Mr. G. Mitchell, to purchase the electric range for the college, the chairman pointing out that a good one could be obtained for a matter of £80. All honour to Mr. Mitchell and his fellowgovernors.