TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 196, 21 August 1933, Page 6

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

As a practical farmer, I am amazed at the course misncimed agriculture provided at the Technical College. There are undoubtedly good elements in it, but to call it an agricultural course without any practical workl No wonder the principal wants to spend £2000 on buildings and to get a share of the Mount Albert ""Grammar School property.. Woodwork and metalwork are both useful aud desirable accomplishments almost anywhere, but to what extent can they be of any use to and learnt by boys of 14 and 15? This is the day of "spare, parts," and very few farms have I ever seen equipped with an anvil and the other tools necessary for metalwork. To my mind, the inclusion of metalwork is only an indication of the subordination of- this course to the other technical courses and facilities provided by "the Tech." The time spent on metalwork by boys of that age is wasted and gives them an atmosphere totally at variance with the requirements of agriculture. No, if the agricultural course were transferred to the suburbs, as suggested by your other correspondents, much good would result, and the principal would be all the more esteemed if he voluntarily gave up an anachronism in the city. " BRACKEN.