REARRANGEMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 9

REARRANGEMENT.

TECHNICAL SCHOOL WORK. ROOMS SECURED AT V.M.C.A. . CONTINUATION CLASSES. ~" , The director of the Technical School (Mr. La Trobe) submitted a report in connection with evening class arrangements to the board meeting last night. j The report is as follows: — "An extra i class in English and an extra class in arithmetic have been arranged. Subject to 1 the approval of the board I have appointed Mr. M. H. Dixon to have charge. Mr. Dixon, has already had charge of one class in English, and I would recommend that hie salary be increased from £20 per annum for one night weekly to £60 per annum for three nights weekly. Mr. Clark'd Monday evening bookkeeping class hasj been removed to the- Willis-street room, which serves his purpose sufficiently well no long as there are no' wool-claeses. The wool-classes should begin next month, and then the new rooms iv the V.M.C.A. will be available THE V.M.C.A. ROOMS. "The Y.M.C.x\. rooms are now being fitted up with new furnituie, as all our present furniture is in use. The following furniture has been" ordered by me,_ acting under instructions from the chairman, and a claim for the amount has been forwarded to the Education Department. For the Mechanical Laboratory:— Eighteen btools, price £5 17s j sixteen tables, £28 12s; twenty adjustable two-seat desks, £33 10s ; four rise and fall blackboards, £19; total, £36 19s. The following furniture is required in addition to the above : Fifteen adjustable desks or tables to 6eat thirty students, £26 ; two teachers' tables, £1 ss ; four dozen chairs, £16 ; cupboards, wall boards, and apparatus, say, £30 The gas lighting is being re-arranged and more candje power put on to suit the needs of class work. "The hall belonging to the rooms is very large and can well be partitioned off to give further laboratory accommodation, but I do not recommend doing *r*S U ? til th . c midw inter-vacation. We shall have immediately available two class rooms and a laboratory. 1 propose to transfer oertaiu lecture daises that meet at 'present in art and other workrooms to the hew class rooms. I propose also to free a room on Tuesday and Thursday evenings for a new section of the evening shorthand classes, for which a new teacher will be required. The new rooms will also enable us to provide an extra class in bookkeeping on Friday evenings, to meet the pressure which has accumulated in this section during the last two or three years. * It is desirable that we should make satisfactory provision for the electrical classes on Tuesday and . Wednesday evenings, which at present meet in a room suitable only for & small class in advanced work. This could be done by converting the hall in the V.M.C.A. rooms into an elementary electrical laboratory, the only disadvantage being the difficulty of getting low voltage current there without considerable expense, while a storage battery is equally required in 'the advanced laboratory at the school. So far as day work is concerned, I propose that the day boys in t>he mechanical classes should work up at the V.M.C.A. rooms as much as possible, so as to leate more room for our other classes in the main school. EVENING CLASS ARRANGEMENTS. "With the purchase oi new typewriters it becomes imperative that we should havea-room reserved for typing, with the machines fixed in the dfesks. None- of our present commercial rooms is largs enough for a satisfactory arrangement of the machines, but they could be fixed temporarily, and 1 think we could now spare one room for th 9 sole purpose of typing and shorthand. The efficiency of the claes would be greatly improved if we could. The arrangements proposed are merely tentative, and may require modification from time to time to suit the varying demands for instruction. The new anangement should enable us to meet the need.s of our students much better than before. NEW' BUILDING WANTED. "At the same time, the fact that ha« made ifself must clear to mo wliilo I

have been trying to discover the beet way of using our present facilities is that, from all points of view, there is only one leal solution of the- problem of giving the school a chance to develop in a healthy way, and that is the provision of a properly placed and properly designed Technical School building, with sufficient open space for playground." The report was adopted, ,