TECHNICAL CLASSES.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 139, 13 June 1888, Page 4

TECHNICAL CLASSES.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES,

Last evening, the prizes'; wer>pi# tributed to the. students of Mr Walter I. Robinson's Technical Classesat the Training College, Wellesley - streetMr Robinson having invited Mr Luke to present the prizes, Mr Luke said that W had very great pleasure in being present' he looked upon the instruction in-thesa classes as a kind of extra education. -.W system without it was Perf^ a ° there must be a practical side, as weD «j literary side, and • scientific: and prac J education was not inferior toW«*ry» cation. The great doctrine of dwetoPgJ was continually going °n-even w * paß b and machinery-for the tunej»«g when the bushman's axe, hammer^and mi were the only tools required., "ojo make New Zealand PPK^iSdW lutelynecessary that our V^S^td an opportunity of becoming inventors discoverers, and the adnurabkinstg given by Mr Robinson, combined*!^, students' own diligence, would bear g fruit in after years, when tiiu <g J would not be behind any nationi.scg* attainments. Mr Luke then F*""*^ prizes to the students of last years cou for general progress. fa rize . ■ The following is a list of tne H J# winners :-J. H. Machio, A. WigV, Herrold, B. 0. McKerrßß, HemjTj .., ■ J. H. Skinner, B. W?gley, HJea"? th 6 The following gentlemen^^S^' prizes :-The Chairman, Mr *ff {d ta Messrs Upton and Co., Mr■ tti (of "Herald" Office), and Mr WiW>» Messrs Kidd and Wfldman . From the specimens of wotk it would be seen that practical a was dealt with in all its b^rfjerd plain and solid geometry toi lg S & plans and details of a <J^ , o f Students learn not only &*&*<s m construction, but the appbeatwr» c > principles to standard examples o . practice, and so they acqui J g _ B drawings of real value for tuwre means of the drawing, «"" variouß acquires a knowledge _ot w^ w improvements made iron time in mechanical *™f*r°\ the vanced students, in »dd"J.instructed ordinary work of the class, are i in getting out quantities ana . The wort"in applied mechanrcs * ul such branches of the subject ?? a buildiDf r to practical men engaged in *" trade. , cMtAtlSSfi $' A vote of thanks to the Cflftir»™ miDatod the proceedings.