TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 27 November 1936, Page 2

TECHNICAL SCHOOL

ANNUAL EXHIBITION. WORK BY PUPILS. The annual exhibition of work by the pupils of the Palmerston North Technical High School, which was opened at the school, yesterday, reilects great credit on the principal (Mr G. G. Hancox), the staff, and the pupils themselves. Displays are set out m the various classrooms, and the exhibits in all the sections are outstanding. In the dressmaking room, dressmaking, millinery, and art needlework are featured which bear eloquent testimony to the enthusiasm of the girls for this branch of work and the careful tuition of the teachers. There are frocks, costumes, evening gowns, beach wear, and coats, to mention only a few of the articles in this section, and all are surprisingly well finished. Hats to match outfits are also interesting, and there are, soft bright cushions which would grace the most elegant drawingroom. The display by the art classes is a revelation of what is being achieved in this direction, and is deserviug of the highest praise. It includes oils, water-colours, pencil and pen work, figure, still life and object drawing, plant studies, design, etching, signwriting and poster work. Creating appreciative comment is the arts and crafts display, the ticket writing and commercial art work, and also the display by the commercial classes of typewriting, book-keeping, and shorthand. Very tempting is the display by the cookery classes, in which Christmas cakes and other dainties, and bottled fruit are featured. A luncheon for four, set out on a table covered with a beautifully worked cloth and serviettes, is most attractive, with its meat moulds, salads, and sweets. Here a balanced meal chart and a poster, “Fruit for Health,” are prominent. The exhibition in the workshops is most comprehensive. Tea waggons made of native rimu stained in various colours are prominent, and there is also a china cabinet in polished rimu with-leadlight doors, and a stool in walnut. Other articles, to mention only a few, are pianoforte stools, card tables, an oak lamp-stand, trays, cakestands, a folding chair, fern-stands, foot-stools, and a surf board. The carpentry and joinery work shows roofing and frames, a beam roof truss, building joints, model , doors, and showcase joints. Construction on a small scale of cattle feeding troughs, milking stools, ladders, field gates, and wool sorting tables is carried on by pupils of the rural class, and examples of the work are schown. MANUAL TRAINING. An interesting display is the manual training section by Standards 5 and 6 of the Convent School, and here various knick-knacks are neatly finished. An array of the work done by first-year boys is attracting attention. Engineer’s tool boxes are firmly made, the metal work having been done in the engineering shop. Building construction drawings, general trade, engineering and handwork drawings are set out in the draughting room. Then there is plumbing and sheet-metal work, and among the interesting things in the electrical display is an X-ray plant. For the first time, the new engineering shop is open to the public. Although all oi the fitting work is not yet completed, some of the wheels, .were turning, and make those who visit the 6hop realise that with the modem equipment it will be one of the best of its kind in the Dominion. LUNCHEON COMPETITION.

The results of the luncheon competition of the Technical School are as follow : Seniors. —Ngaire Cottle and Eva Sinkinson (electric oven) 1, Esther Christensen and Bertha Redmond (gas oven) 2. Juniors. —Electric oven. Zillah Finch and Dorothy Langridge 1. Grace Watterreus and Pat Cadogen 2, Margaret Coulter and Mary Carmine 3. Gas oven: Leila Hubbard and Mildred Herrick 1, Isobel Donaldson and Rona Drew 2, Rona Leask and Jessie Hoskings 3. Coal range: Inez Lyall and Joyce Catty 1, Jean Pedersen and Joyce Hatton 2, Jocelyn Park and Margaret Oliver 3. Individual cooking: Mildred Herrick 1, Dorothy Langridge 2, Pat Cadogen 3.