TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 15 December 1916, Page 12

TECHNICAL SCHOOL

A Wery interesting display of students' work is now on view at the Wellington Technical College. The exhibition was visited by considerable number's of people yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately the trade exhibits were not among those especially sought after, nor were they by any means the most interesting or the most important of the displays. The greatest crowd of visitors was in the cooking room, where there was not only a display, but a sale, oT goods. All sorts of cooked and prepared dainties wore on sale, at prices very little above the value of the actual materials used. Thesb goods represented the result of part of the students' work during the whole year,' and . comprised jams, preserves, picklos, chutneys, cakes of all sorts, and sweets, all presented for sale in a very attractive manner. The proceeds of the sale' are used to return to the school funds the cost of materials used, and the surplus is to bo given to some patriotic fund. - Next' in importance in publio opinion was tho'show of work of the arts classes—in w.ater-colour, drawing, modelling, wood-carving, and motaj work. Sonio of this work was good enough to merit tho attention "it attracted, especially the display of senior pupils' water-colours. The most-ambi-tious and most attractive exhibits were somo ten or twelve illustrations of nursery rhymes and fairy tales, all produced by three or four students. The metal work in silver and enamel and in copper was also remarkably artistic. In the engineering shop and the carpenters' shop thore Vere also shows of students' wprk._. These'displays, were not so ■■' interesting nor so much in' general favour'as the others, but wero; no doubt important' in their way. Certainly in a technical school they ought to be important.