VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 3

VOCATIONAL TRAINING

GOOD PROGRESS MADE.

\ ocational training of returned soldier patients, at the various centres in the Wellington district for December saow® a slight decline as. compared with the November working period. The number <^f patients under treatment at Trentham and Pukeora durijn^ December totalled 454, of whom 390, or 85.9 per cent, were in receipt of vocational instruction at the various classes. Of this latter total some students are taking classes in more than one subject, and when these are taken account of the actual number ori-class rails for the Wellington district reaches 752. Students continue to maintain a commendable diligence, showing; at the class rooms regularity of attendance to a marked degree. Despite the fact that the December period was subject, to interruption through the closing down of the workshops for the Christmas vacation, the hours of attendance nut in by the students amounted to 15,245, being an average of 39 hours ncr man for a working period of thirteen daye. For the articles manufactured "by the students in the workshops a ready sale % found. For this medium the soldiers recreation fund at the hospitals benefited to the extent of £105 lis 2d for December. Just previous to closing down for Christmas the sum of £116 was disbursed on the basis of attendance at the Workshops among students at Trentham and Pukeora Hosnitals respectively. . ' Six stndents for whom tuition was arranged in cbmmercial subjects under the vocational training scheme sat for ' examinations. Of this number three were successful in pass-jig the varions subjects taken. " Thirty-five out-' natients are under tuit'on at various technical colleges, and special clashes in the district, and the progress he:ng made by these men is very satisfac^ torily reported uoon. •