TECHNICAL SCHOOL
TWO MORE CLASSROOMS. MINISTER-APPROVES GRANT. For a considerable time past the Palmerston North Technical School has been overcrowded and, in consequence of representations made, the department agreed to consider the construction of two- additional rooms pending the execution of a more comprehensive scheme of extension. . Hon. R. A. Wright, the new Minister for Education, has now advised Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., chairman of tho Technical School Committee that Cabinet has agreed to a grant for the erection of two new rooms at the school. Just how, acute has become the problem of accommodation at the Technical School was pointed out at the last meeting of the committee by the director (Mr G. G. Hancox) who mentioned the need for increasing the number of classes (at present f4O). He pointed out that _ there were now 1000 individual pupils instructed by 40 teachers, of whom 11 were full-time instructors. The only place in which to put a furthen class was in the boys’ luncheon room and that, he explained, was hardly suitable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 9
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173TECHNICAL SCHOOL Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 9
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