TRAINING OF TEACHERS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27501, 8 November 1954, Page 12

TRAINING OF TEACHERS

ARDMORE PARTY IN CANTERBURY

CHRISTCHURCH STUDENTS VISIT NORTH ISLAND

Parties of students from the Christchurch Teachers’ College and the Ardmore Teachers’ College, Auckland, are now studying the geography, hisother aspects of districts in the North and South Island as part of their social studies. For some of the students it is their first visit to these areas.

A group of 34 students from Ardmore, under Mr C. Herbert, a lecturer in geography at the college, arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning. Later in the week they will be joined by the senior lecturer in geography college, Mr Norman Whatman. The Auckland party will attend assembly and take morning tea at the Christchurch Teachers’ College this morning. After they have met the Deputy-Mayor (Cr. G. Manning) at the Christchurch City Council, they will go to the top of the State Fire Office to obtain a view of the city. In the afternoon they will go to the geography department at Canterbury University College to hear more about Christchurch from Dr. G. Jobbems, professor of geography, and Mr L. L. Pownall, senior lecturer in geography. Afterwards they will go on a bus tour of the city. This evening they will attend a social at the Teachers’ College hall. They will spend tomorrow at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, and on Wednesday they will go to Lyttelton. On their way back they will climb to the summit of the Bridle path, and their bus will bring them back to Christchurch by way of the Summit road and Kennedy’s Bush. On their way south on Thursday they will call at the irrigation research station at Winchmore. That evening they will sleep in the school at Pukaki. On Friday they will eat a picnic lunch at the Ball Hut, and will spend the night in shearing quarters at Omarama station. The Waitaki power station and a sheep station in the area will be visited on Saturday. After spending Saturday night at Waihaorunga, they will call at Te Waimate station on their way north to Christchurch next Sunday. On their final day in the South Island next Monday they will see the Provincial Council Chambers and the Christchurch Cathedral. They will also go to the Canterbury Museum to see oh a relief map the country over which they have travelled. Visit to North Island

A party of about 30 primary division students left Christchurch on Saturday evening to spend 10 days in the North Island. Travelling from Wellington to as far north as the Bay of Islands. The students were to have visited the Taupo and the Geyser valley thermal areas yesterday afternoon, and on their way to Auckland today they will visit the Kinleith timber and pulp mills, the Maraetai power station and hydro-electric construction at Whakamaru. They will spend three days this week in Auckland studying the life of the city. From Auckland they will go to the Bav of Islands, visiting places of historic significance. Back in Wellington again they will be shown over Parliament Buildings. Another Christchurch party of similar size left yesterday for the West Coast. This party includes graduate course students and two Gilbert and Ellice Islands students who are on a year’s special course at the Christchurch Teachers’ College. For the first time this year firstyear students are taking part in the studies. Second-year students have gone on all previous trips of this nature.