TRAINING OF TEACHERS.
INSTRUCTION; CLASSES AT GREYTOWN. Eighteen teachers under the Wellington District Education Board havo -. -just ".knocked off work t.o-.carry, bricks," as .the saying is.' Their^.schools^.closcd.-on. Friday last, and on- Monday they-assembled .at Greytowri - under -Mr.:- W.- Davies; ■ Instructor in Agriculture,-to undergo sicourse of instruction in elementary agriculture and nature -study. The:'.-: cISSs-. was-.'. formally opened by Mr. A. W..Hogg, M.P.y a-mem-ber of the Education Board, on Monday, when a short address.. was. delivered. At intervals during the, course, lectures will be given by Messrs. T. 'IV? Kirlc, Government Biologist, T. 11. Fleming and J. S. Tennant, inspectors of schools; Mr. -Frasor, of' the Technical School, will also decturo .on nature study and drawing, and an officer of the Department , of Agriculture; ■ will : give practical instruction -in'■ outside work,--<treo grafting, etc. The Education ißbara i has expressed its approval of. the' work" by ioxtcmling the torn, holiday week to Ifortnight. This course was a,lso adopted when the " summer school,", which proved so suoccssful,- was ' undertaken' at - Greytown ■ towards tho end of tho last Christmas, viiost- i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 208, 27 May 1908, Page 2
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177TRAINING OF TEACHERS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 208, 27 May 1908, Page 2
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