Primary School Cooking Instruction

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6627, 14 August 1931, Page 3

Primary School Cooking Instruction

POSITION IN TEILDING Sinco the closing of the Technical School building in Ecrgusson street, Feilding, where instruction m cooking for both primary and secondary school children was conducted, this activity has been in abeyance pending other arrangements being made. The fate oL the big two-storeyed building, which was closed owing to it being a source of danger in the event of a lug earthquake, is still undecided, although it would appear from correspondence dealt with at Wednesday’s meeting of the Board of Managers of tho i eliding Agricultural High School that the Education Department is considering converting the structure into a oncstorcyed building. It appears that the Education Boaid desired to resume control of the building with tho object of utilising the cooking apparatus for tho instruction of primary school children, and it dcserod to know whether the Board of Managers would use the building loi night classes when it was aitcrcd and made secure against earthquake. The principal (Mr. L. J. Wild) stated that the correspondence had come to hand after the last board meeting and he had conferred with the acting-chaii* man (Mr. J. Knight) and the buildings committee, who had authorised a loply to the effect that the Board of Managers would make use of the building when aitcrcd, and further that the board did not desire that the cooking apparatus should bo moved to temporary premises, as the new cookery classroom at the High School would shortly bo available. Mr. Hugh Mclntyre stated that he knew the AVanganui Education Board was anxious to resume _ control of the Technical School building, as it was most central for country school children for cooking instruction. With regard to this aspect of the question, ]\tr. Wild stated that nothing short of decapitation would meet the position of the old building, and judging by tho fact that both cookery and woodwork classrooms wore now being erected at the High School ground, it appeared that the board intended that these classrooms should be used by both primary and secondary school children. He gathered from this that nothing would be done with the old building, the alteration of which would bo almost as costly as removing it altogether and erecting a new structure in its place. The meeting endorsed the reply sent by the principal without further discussion.