NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PRINTING
Early Establishment Advocated CLAIMS BY PRINTERS’ FEDERATION (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH. March 13. The Federation of Master Printers of New Zealand will ask the Minister of Education (Mr R. M. Algie) for the early establishment of a national school of printing, at which printing trade and photo-engraving apprentices can be given practical and theoretical training. This was decided at the federation’s annual conference at New Plymouth today.
The federation urged “that due consideration be given to the claims of of Auckland as a site for the school.” and advocated the acceptance of a glear definition of the type of training to be given. The convener of the apprenticeship training committee (Mr W. P. Carman. of Wellington) said that, at a meeting of the New Zealand Printing and Photo-engraving Apprenticeship Committee last December, it was decided apprentices should do correspondence courses to ensure continuity of block courses at the school. In some cases, it would be possible to hold evening classes instead of having correspondence courses. Mr Carman said. The school would have classes of 12 students each, and it was estimated that 200 composing and 100 machinery apprentices would attend. As for the' respective claims of Auckland and Wellington. Mr Carman said that officials at Wellington had assumed that the school would be located there. It was proposed that a technological institute would be established in Wellington, and presumably the school of printing would be part of it. “The weight of this federation must be placed behind the decision of the New Zealand committee for the esrlv establishment of a school,” Mr Carman said. The school should be established in Auckland said Mr G. S. Clarke 'Auckland) The Seddon Memorial Technical College was fully equipped to run a printing school, and the volume of printing business carried on m . th ,e Province also warranted the school being m Auckland.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27917, 14 March 1956, Page 16
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