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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 8

Included in the general cargo in the forward hold of the Makura, when it arrived at Wellington, was a big iron pot, a link with the early whaling days in the Pacific. The pot is now the prized possession of Mr and Mrs W. Reid, who are taking it to their home in Sydney. The pot, said Mrs Reid, was brought to Tahiti by whalers before Tahiti was settled and was used by them for boiling the whale blubber. During the war it was used for cooking food for soldiers, hut now, said Mrs Reid, it will be used to grow nasturtiums in her garden. “More and more reliance is being placed on the training of industrial operatives in technical institutions,” stated tlie chairman of the Board of Governors ' (Mr M. H. Oram) at the breaking-up ceremony of the Palmerston North Technical School, last evening. Ho added that the apprenticeship method in trades had dismally failed as an instructional medium, and technical education was now occupying a more important position that ever before in industry and the scheme of national affairs. There must be a mental background and general basic education provided for those who were to continue to recioi w ‘msfiructioai in trades after leaving school. Great Britain was, this year, spending £12,000,000 on technical education because of tho development of industry.