VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 17, 20 January 1921, Page 6

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

PROGRESS OF INSTRUCTION.

Vocational training of returned soldier patients at the various centres in the Wellington District for December shows a slight decline as compared with the November working period. The number of patients under treatment at Trentham and Pukeroa during December totalled 454, of whom 390, or 85.9 per cent, were jn receipt of vocational instruction at the various classes. Of thi3 latter total some' students are taking classes in more than one subject, and when these are taken account of the actual number on class rolls for the Wellington District reaches 752. Students continue to maintain a commendable diligence showing at the class rooms regularity of attendance to a marked, degree. . Despite the fact that the December period was subject to interruption through the clos^, ing down of the workshops for the Xmas vacation; the hours of attendance by the students amounted to 15,245, being an average of 39 hours per man for a working per. iod of thirteen days, For the articles manufactured by the students in the workshops a ready sale is found. The Soldiers' Recreation Fund at the hospitals benefitted to the extent of £105 11s 2d for December. Just prior to closing rown for Xmas the sum of £116 was disbursed on the basis of attendance at workshops among the students at Trentham and Pukeroa Hospitals.

Six students for whom tuition' was arranged in commercial subjects under the vocational training scheme, sat for sections in the accountancy exams. Of this number three were successful in passing the various subjects taken. Thirty-five outpatients are under tuition at various technical colleges, and special classes in the district, and the progress beingmade by tliose men is very satisfactorily reported ujron.