At this morning's meeting of the Educatibh'Bo—d, the Director of Technical Education in Auckland (Mr George George) submitted a supplementary report On the extension of manual training and domestic science to country districts. In the course of an exhaustive report, 'he suggested that the Board should employ travelling .teachers and travelling equipment, and recommended a speciallyconstructed caravan, somewhat similar to those used by tourists and gipsies in the Old Country, for the transportation from place to place of the equipment required. A special itinerant teacher for each branch would be appointed. The caravans would then be conveyed to a certain school, the equipment taken out and placed' either in the school room or in some local hail "hired for the purpose, or—in case of a last, extremity—in a tent -which would he carried in the caravan. By this means be believed that a maximum benefit would "be -received by country pupil 3at a minimum expense, and suggested that the Department be approached at oface for the necessary funds to provide "two caravans—one for woodwork and one for cookery and equipment. The Chairman expressed the opinion that the suggestion was a feasible one, hut it would first have to be submitted to the Chief Inspector and —seeu-tive,and-jon his motion a resolution, of thanks' was passed to Mt <3-eorge, and the report referred for consideration to the next meetina of the.Board. Rugby Union-Annual for 1910, price 6d> now «h 'sale at all stati oilers, and at tie "Star" Office.—(Ad.).
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1910, Page 2
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