DISPLAY OF WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 9

DISPLAY OF WORK

HUTT TECHNICAL COLLEGE

An indication of'the work achieved by pupils undertaking industrial, commercial, or homecraft training at the Hutt Valley Technical . College, was given by exhibits in the annual college display of work on Friday. Owing to handicaps of restricted space and building operations, the display was not on the extensive scale of previous years but nevertheless the standard of exhibits was maintained.

While the display was staged, boys were busy with engineering, carpentry, electricity, signalling, mechanical drawing, metalwork and numerous other skilled, crafts: Girls' work included needlework, dressmaking, home science projects, typewriting and other activities. The work of students engaged in social studies and arts was also exhibited. Members of the college branch of the Air Training Corps provided a model aerodrome and a display of technical equipment, and members of the school signalling corps were busy showing their accomplishments. Plumbing, carpentry, and metalwork sections attracted particular attention, both for the wide range of exhibits displayed, and the care taken with their construction. .In the carpentry room were examples of joinery and home-building to scale and some fine examples of cabinet making. Included among. working equipment displayed in the motor engineering section was a Diesel engine dismantled from a tank captured from the Italian forces in Libya and brought to New Zealand for study by Army technicians. ■..■■•■■ % Numerous projects resulting from pupils' social studies were also exhibited. One of the subjects covered by the social studies was a regional survey of the Hutt Valley which has proved to be one of the most-popular among pupils. Under the social study course, pupils have also made excursions to nearby factories and the State housing scheme.. Some of the most outstanding work in the art section was done in oils, white examples of commercial art were also of a high standard. Girls in the dressmaking and needlework classes displayed samples of highlyskilled , work, while the second-year girls were present in frocks which they themselves had made. Prizewinners in the annual contest for the Clarke embroidery shield were:—N. McLennan 1, D. Davies 2, M. Floyd 3.

Many men of the Army and Air Force have also taken advantage of the facilities offered by the college in the various trade sections. Under a scheme through which the college has co-operated with the Army Education and Welfare Service the college facilities have been made available to permit members of the forces to extend their knowledge and skill for their return to civilian life.