CARPENTRY CLASSES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 75, 31 March 1910, Page 3

CARPENTRY CLASSES.

AMATEURS AND TRADE PUPILS*. In a. report to the Wellington Tech* nical Education Board, the instructor ofc ihe ca-rpentry classes (Mr. Graham^ • states that he thinks there are- at present no amateurs* attending the classes with a view of qualifying fortfee tradr of carpentry. "From time to time,."' he adds, "an individual coraes along; possessed of an idea tbat-he can do so,, and after a few trial exercises he al» ways finds it is not so easy as hat thought it to be, and when it is pointed! out to him that it usually takes ayoun© man of average ability a matter of five* years, working forty_-five hours per week, to become moderately proficienfa in the trade, he changes his mind, and! wg see little more of him." Mr. Gra^ ham thinks that the object of them»«,e m»«, jority of amateurs in joining sucte classes is a desir© to make somethings' for the home. Tfee metbod of proceTi di>re with their work dHfors in many, oases. Whereas the amateur is "led? along slow and sure te^ardiessK>f-t«na. paths, tfeo trade pupil is advised to, adopt and praobiae the speediest trade oxport methods. Mr. Graham, has nafe noticed that the presence of the on* . class interferes with the vsork of the* other sine© the teaching is radxwdtiairfor the most part. Personalty;, he is of .opinion that the mingiij^ of student* .Who m«ke cacpentey their imsEtees wdth -those who make it tfaear ptessuro is -oiten of ad-waatage to both. He Slinks that a-^Bor« specaafewd courae f?r tuufo apprentices is desxratte. T5» eveara& classes are composed as fofiow • Theory, 13s advanced carpentry, 4* carpentry and jorumy, 34.

I A fool is oho who grves adTxc* to a Mr»e mau.aftd.thiakshiin a fool for- not -taking, it.