TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1914, Page 4

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

EXHIBITION OP WORK. The annual exhibition of students' work at the Wellington Technical College, which wa6 opened in the College Buildings. Mercer-street, yesterday morning, affords excellent testimony of the valuable instruction being imported at the college, which, in attendance, is the city's most popular educational institution. In the display five main branches altogether are represented, viz., the art classes, and the mechanical engineering, carpentering, plumbing, and domestic economy departments. The work of each is shown in separate rooms, and in each case is sufficient to form an exhibition on its own, co numerous and diversified are the exhibits displayed. While each is of distinct merit, that of the art classes will, perhps, command the most attention, in this there is an exceptionally good display of models in clay designed fi'om life or imagination, wood-carving, decorated panelling, etchings, all kinds of drawings, watercolour paintings, jewellery work, woven fabrics, etc. In the whole of these both elementary and advanced work is shown, and generally reflects credit upon the students and staff The best work from tho life studies (notably that from the modelling classes) is. however, not on view, the finest achievements of the students having been sent to the New Zealand Academy of line Art 6, where it is now on exhibition. In the engineering, plumbing, and carpentering departments some excellent workmanship is displayed, and in some instances is bo good that when the visitor is informea that it was turned out by youths of io and 16 years of age he finds it difficult to believe. Much of the machinery and devices exhibited, indeed, have even been designed oy the boys, and in their execution certainly bear the hall-mark of the engineer — his hand and brain. The domestic economy classes (cooking and dressmaking) aTe also well represented, and show that the Technical College, while turning out excellent artisans and artists, is also giving valuable lessons in home-training.