NAPIER TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 62, 27 February 1912, Page 3

NAPIER TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

BUM MARY OF ANNUAL REPORT. The Director of tlie Napier Technical College. Air. Walter Fossey, will present his annual report on the past year’s work to the annual meeting of the Napier Technical Classes Association which will be held tomorrow night. The report shows that the wo;k of the year has again been successful in all departments not only in point cf numbers, attendance, conduct, but above all in the increased number of students who have taken up related courses of work. The work has been carried on under similar lines as last year, and an average of nearly 800 pupils have attended weekly during the year, this being a considerable increase over 1910.

. .Eighty-three pupils were admitted to the day school, eighty of these being holuers of tree pliiees. xtany every elegible gai and boy was emxfrk-d co oocutn an appointment daring tlie year, and tue boys who have gene co vvo<kshops have been we'l spoken of by tiaeir employ ers.

oixty-one sat for the annual examinations, 33 passed first class and 2i second class.

The engineering school was opened dm mg the y .-ar, twenty toar pupils attending. Inc fitting up m. the sv.op, the placing of the uiaciuaes and all head gear, etc., was ail cairied oat by the boys under tlie dii'cciioii of tee instructor, Mr. A. J. Newman. Tlie boys paid a visit to the Kiulway \\ oushops and weresnowxi over them by the manager. File gills also paid a visit to the .Napier v>-oollen Mills,' and were conducted over them oy the manager. The sports and physical training inis not been overlooked and the various forms of outdoor sports have been ircc-ly indulged in.

Two exhibitions of the school work were held—one at the Spring Show at Hastings and one in the College in December. The comments at both exhibitions spoke well tor the work of the pupils. The work of the evening classes has been very encouraging. The highest average attendance for any one month was £9l as against 215 lor 19R’. The annual examinations were held at the end of November, tlie result being as under : —Students entered for examination, 97 ; number ot subjects in which examinations were held, 22 ; total number of papers worked, 264. At the close of the 1910 session 66 pupils entered for the various examinations, and 137 papers were worked. This averages two papers per student for 1910. whilst for 1911 the average is three papers, pointing to the fact that students are taking,a more complete course of study than in 1910. By the kindm s'- of Mr. A. H. Rus sell, ten pupils entered for the sheepshearing at- Twyford and at the end of the course an average of 90 sheep per day was being shorn by each pupil. Eight students were examined, and seven were awarded first class certificates. A number of students entered for the City Guilds and South Kensington examinations with satisfactoryresults.