STUDENTS REFUSED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21726, 7 March 1936, Page 16

STUDENTS REFUSED

LACK OF ACCOMMODATION AT TECHNICAL - COLLEGE '<* . fifi.i 1 ' y *j ■ ~ j 'Sir'',, lijjj r*>r= ’ . -,-/?* ■> , ■»> /“The position has never, before been so bad so early in the year” said the principal of the Technical College, Dr. ; D. B. Hansen, when J commenting! on the reference to lack of accommodation in his re- , port to the Board of Governors last evening. The report stated that the need for more accommodation for ■ needlework and dressmaking : classes grew more urgent every ~ year. Further enrolment had now ' been refused and most of the classes J had been full before instruction J started. . - : 1 .T| “It is serious,” he said, “when we | have to refuse students” ", § The roll number had increased to more than 1250 pupils, compared with 1180 last year, but arrangements had- been made to the classes till a proportion went to - ; the new school at PapanuL . “There are now no vacant rooms 'j. in the building on Tuesdays,” the report, “and we are actually one room short for that evenh&;,»t When large classes are subdivided "i|3 we expect to have all the robins, pc- m cupied on Mondays, and Thursdays. The matter of ip- k\ creased accommodation should ceive consideration, as the natural /I growth of the school as the tion increases will soon make for withdrawals caused by the erec|i| tion of the new scliool.” "-Si bedause they are hounded into if organised cricket and football tißal boredom becomes distaste and taste aversion. There is, scope for development in particularly in held athletics and the gymnasium. Desirable united to knowledge may bftj| practised in ways not excessiyely||| developed in New Zealand ary schools: in music and in crafts4s|| manship. There is no need to entecJS into the details of both these£| occupations,, beyond stating that; more than one or. two branche&|| •need to be made available. If these comments require or are worth summary,, the conclusions that at least one-third of the present®! school time spent on the training of -J the mind should he spent on training in action, that the necessary;, specialists required for training iii.*ja action would release academical teachers who should be encouraged- 1 ! to make themselves better and better citizens of the world.