TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 51, 1 March 1921, Page 9

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

MEETING OF THE BOARD.

Members of the Wellington Technical Education- Board met last evening. Mr. W. H. Bennett presided.

■Ia his report the Director (Mr. J. H. Howell) said that the evening school opened on 15th February. "I am not in a position," said the Director, "to make any comparison for last year, but the enrolment seems in general to be very satisfactory. The accountancy classes for students preparing for the commercial and professional accountants' examination are attracting a large number of students. Although the classes were only started in August and therefore the students had barely three months in which to prepare instead of s year, some ter of them were euccesafnl in the University examination last November, while others are sitting in March. It reflects great credit on Mr. Enting, who spfwed no pains to help bis students. Our Soldiers' Day classes, taken" by Mr. Cameron, had seven students who were .successful in passing the whole or part of the commerciaj accountants' examinatiqn. It will be necessary to form an additional class, and I have asked Mr. Cameron to take this. In the recent Public Service Entrance Examination, eight out of eleven pupils of the High School were successful—a very satisfactory result seeing that no special arrangements have in the past been made for their preparation." There werrnow 291 students attending the High School, as compared with 280 last year.