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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 4 July 1936, Page 9

In a report to the Southland High Schools’ Board of Governors, the rector (Dr. G. H. Uttlev) urged the widening of the curriculum. He stated: “For some years we have been endeavouring to have the curriculum widened to meet the needs of hoys who will not ho taking up the professions. This year woodwork instruction has been introduced and the classes are doing excellent work from a purely educative point of view. This manual training should be extended, not with a. view to teaching boys trades, but with the purpose of educating them through their hands. The extension proposed is the formation of an elementary engineering class. The agricultural boys would take this class as part of their training. Motor engineering would form part of the course, but at the outset the work would have to be more or less preliminary.”