EVENING CLASSES WANTED

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27455, 15 September 1954, Page 6

EVENING CLASSES WANTED

YOUNG FARMERS’ REQUEST TO LINCOLN COLLEGE

“I think this board and our staff would be in sympathy with the Young Farmers’ Club, but the courses would require the employment of competent instructors at night time, and that might impose a fairly heavy burden on our staff, which is already fully engaged during the day?’ said tne Director, Dr. M. M. Burns, when the board of governors of Canterbury Agricultural College yesterday considered a request from the Christchurch District Committee of the Young Farmers’ Club movement to hold evening classes at the college in blacksmithing and welding from June to August next year.

Dr. Burns said that the Leestnn Technical Association had been holding Courses at the college on Monday and Thursday evenings, and it was almost certain that it would seek to cany on next year. An alternative to declining the request might be to make the facilities at the college available to the Young Farmers provided that an instructor approved by the college was found. Mr A. W. Riddolls, head of the department of agricultural engineering at the college, had asked whether the holding of evening classes at the college was not a policy matter, said Dr. Burns. “It would be a good thing to meet their wishes if we could devise some way of doing it,’’ said the chairman, Mr W. H. Gillespie. M.P. The agricultural engineering department at the college is to be asked for a report.