TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 76, 27 September 1927, Page 6

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

C&PETEMA.. .TO GO AHEAD.

The 'first meeting of the recently Mected "Wellington Technical College Board of Govenors was hold last night. Mr. W.H. Bennett's was the only nomination' for tEe .position of chairman, and -Ihe was re-elected. The. Minister of Education (tße Hon Mr. B. A. "Wright) wrote accepting au. Invitation to the opening of the new gymnasium on 30th September.** , The secretary of vtho.. Master i Pna-, ters':'~TJnion of Employers 'wrote stating that Messrs. M. O'Kane and G. T. Bavago had been appointed its representatives to the Printing Trades Advisory 'Committee. Mr.* J. E. Hunt wro;e accepting the position as the board's representative on the Coach-building Advisory Committee. The Building Committeo reported that 'jthey had 'approved 'the plans" for the proposed cafeteria," and had inspected the site. They had authorised arrangements to be made for proceeding with^the concreting. They recommended that the board proceed' with the work* the carpentry, joinery, and plumbing to be done by students with ,the exception of the roofing. The chairman said that there would Jbe no 'danger of breakage from the play'areas, and asbestos would be tho most'^Buitable material. The director reported that the approval of the Department had been receive'^ for the; division of the theory class;in motor engineering into a junior and senior'section.'-It was desiiaable >that the junior' practical class in painting and decorating, should also be divided as tltere' were twenty-two on the. roll, with an average attendance of 19, and with the very small roomJ that was at present available justice' could not be done to the students, ■ In^the circumstances, therefore, subject to the approval of the Department, a division had bees made.