ENGINEERING SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1922, Page 7

ENGINEERING SCHOOLS.

PROFESJSOR VIEWS. (By Telegrapb.—Press Aseooiation.) CHRIPTCHURCH. this day. Speaking to-day at a complimentary dinner tendered to him by old students. Profesfiir K. .). Scott, who is rctuing from Uic position of director of rhe ••ilk.ol of engineering «t Canterbury College, said: "It does not matter where it is, -mt the i-ountry is not sufficiently' to support more than one e)ijfineering school. Xo I'nivorsity Coll'-jj in Xew Zealand fan be uarrie.l ~v iii the way it should be carried mi without Government assistance. T'i,>re is strong demand in Auckland for the establishment of an cngineeri-.u' s.liool tlitre. If another school is es!.ai)li-shcj lWe present vote must lie spli:. as the (Government could not afford tn two schools like the one in Canterbury. The material at present available v/ill deipriorate. and the men will lave to j/u tn Australia for really (lr«t-f-laB!S training." Trofessor >.-i tt. ashcrted dial .(lie .sciuiol could turn out more thai! s.jfJßcient men tn fulfil the reqtiirciuuuie uf N>w Zealand. If would be lies; to Imve .ni- school for all. with a srateu' "i burvaries for the 1-eneflt nf those V!.-.» Imd to come from a instance In all No-v >OUlh W.ik-s there was only one waool: in \ic-toria there was one school. In Germany there was concentration of effort upon .i few magnificent schoolswhile in Eajj'cnil there were mijoraltle establishments in every little .iiiri those who had been abroad ■ ».uld say which system produced the better it-suit*.