TRAINED SOLDIERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 125, 27 May 1920, Page 2

TRAINED SOLDIERS

EXHIBITION OF WORK

FINE PRODUCTS OF TRENTHAM.

'hi a small way, Trentham camp Tias beaten the sword into the ploughshare, and has become * manufacturing centre. The vocational training system is in full swing there, and of about 300 patients currently in camp only about forty on the average are taking no training course. Engineering (which includes motor-repair work, general machine-shop practice, oxy-acetone welding and plumbing), woodworking (carpentry, joinery, and cabinet making) ate the most popular trade?. Basket-making, bootmaking and repairing, wool-classing, ■ fancy leatherworking, photography, and book-keeping are among the vocations in which instruction is given.

Tfle manufactured articles are sold, STiC? find already market. The profits all go to the men in. the camp, being mostly credited to a recreation fund. As a rule tho woodwork does not pass outside the circle of the men themselves, aa they find the furniture which they make a good investment, and buy it for their uwn use. *

A fine exhibition of Trentham products is being made in Wellington to-day and 10-morrow to acquaint the public with some of the results of the training given to the men in the camp and with the high quality of the work. It is next door to the Grand Hotel, in a shop which lifts been lent to the soldiers rent free for to-day and to-morrow. The articles shown are chiefiy those for which prompt sale can be expected. Shopping" baskets and other basketware are most prominent, and buyers will find them to be admirably made and sturdy enough to stand the heavy transport duties of these days when" many shops decline to deliver goods.^ The leather work includes mocassin slippers and hand-bags, skilfully ornamented with pressed-work designs; and a few photographs represent the output of the camera class.