TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 May 1921, Page 7

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF DIRECTORS.

<BT TELEFWAPH PttF.SS ASSOCIATION.> WELLINGTON, May 10. The annual conference of directors of technical colleges* and other officials connected with technical education opened to-day, Mr. G. J. Park, director of the Wanganui Technical College, presiding. -*' ' ' ■ .

In his presidential address Mr. Park said they must all deplore the fact that the policy of economy on education already begun in this country had so far elicited little more than pious resolutions, but he" hoped that the conference would not only consider economy in education, but that it would take, some preliminary steps towards setting, up a National Education Defence Association, with a permanent organisation to follow up its resolutions. At the same time he' was not of opinion that economy on the part of the Government was not necessary, nor that economy in the Education Department's expenditure was impossible. Regarding defects in the present system, Mr. Park said that if mistakes were not to be repeated they must endeavour to maintain the present scale of educational, effort. They must organise, and organisation must begin with the teachers.