ART CLASSES.

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

ART CLASSES.

TECHNICAL SCHOOL AND TRAINING COLLEGE. Tentative arrangements have teen made for the Technical School to provide t laming in blackboard and other drawing for students in the Teachers' Training College, and for probationers and teachers, on Saturday mornings, about twelve hours weekly in all, for the sum of £120 per annum. The Education Board ratified the arrangement at its last meeting. In a, report on the matter, the director of the Technical School (Mr. La Trobe) considered the suggested arrangement should prove satisfactory both to the Training College and the Technical School. It had been felt for some time that there had not been a close enough connection between the art school and the drawing work of the primary sohools, with the probable effect of lack of unity in direction of the work and loss of efficiency. The possibility of the Training College making use of the ail staff of this school was welcomed. "I have also had in view," continued the director, "the possibility of making good the loss we sustained in Miss Kimbell's retirement by sending to the Old Country for a trained art teacher. To secure the services of a suitable man we would have to pay £250 per annum, and I could not see our way io do that \ without some outside work. "I have conferred with' the Chief Inspector of the Education Board and the Principal of the Training College, and they approve the suggestion that we should import a man versed in the training of teachers as well as being a capable artist and expert in some branch of applied art. Such a man would devote about half his tiriie to Training College work and about half to the work' which Miss Kimbeir took _at this school. I would advise that the Education Department be tisked to securp the services of the High Commissioner for New Zealand and Professor Lethaby, of the Royal College of Art, London, to make the selection. Professor, Lethaby has advised, in regard to the last three art appointments, and would, therefore, be able to choose a man whose attainments would obe complementary to those of our present staff. Pending a permanent appointment, I have arranged for Mr. Pitkethly, Mr. Ellis, and two juniors to do the work." The director also submitted temporary arrangements and teachers' hours and salaries. The board adopted the report, and the <lirector was empowered to make arrangements as suggested by him in the