TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
The folloMjjng table, contained in the annual report of tho Wellington Education Boa|ti, presented at to-day' 3 meeting, shows in detail the subjects of manual and technical instruction undertaken in school classes, and tho number of pupils under instruction: — Number Subject, of Pupils. Agriculture 1,656 Botany 58 Chemistry ' 153 Cookery and Domestio Economy ... 1,143 Dressmaking 1 ' 85 Handwork 18,058 Laundrywork .;... 360 Needlework (sole teacher schools whera special instructress is engaged) 315 Physical Measurements ...;........ ....... 796 Physical Science ........ 34 Physiology and First Aid 293 Swimming and Life-Saving 1,194 Woodwork 1,374 By the erection of small laundry rooms instruction in laundrywork was extended to iivo new daundry centres.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 8
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110TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 8
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