NAPIER TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 204, 12 August 1927, Page 6

NAPIER TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

BOARD OF MANAGERS MEET. GENERAL BUSINESS. The monthly meeting of the Technical School Board of Managers was held in Napier yesterday when Mr T. W. Bear occupied the chair. Other members present were—Mrs R. C. Wright, Messrs A. G. Ballot, C. O. Morse, J. Clark Thomson, H. Rattle, R. C. Wright, A. King and R. McLaren (director). The Minister of Education wrote relative to the board’s request to grant concessions concerning the conveyance of pupils to post-primary schools for engineering classes and advised that the Department was not prepared to do so on the grounds that arrangements had been made in the Napier and Hastings High Schools to give the first two years trainings there. The Department was, however, prepared to pay for the holders of senior-free place certificates. —“The madhThd is the symbol of this age,’’ remarked the director when protesting against the reply. He pointed out that the two schools mentioned had little or no plant; it would mean that for the first two years the boys would merely “potter” about.— ft was deecided to leave the matter in the hands of the director to again write to the Minister and also to bring the matter before the Apprentice and Trades Committees with the request that they also take the matter up. DIRECTOR’S REPORT. The director (Mr R. McLaren) reported as follows: —“The roll of the day-school now stands at 230 —a very considerable increase on last year; the attendance is good although measles and mumps are still about. There arc about 6 per cent owing to this, but the work is progressing satisfactorily. Our second term examination are now nearly over. The school will shut down for the winter holiday on Friday, 19th August, and resume on Wednesday, 7th September. 1 am happy to report, that the evening school attendance keeps up well. On Thursday last, we bad 91 present, 85 on Wednesday, 63 on Tuesday and 60 on Monday. These figures prove the worth of the school and show that our evening classes provide material that is wanted by apprentices and young people who have lately left school. A very gratifying feature is the number of trades classes.