Feilding Technical Classes

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6788, 20 February 1932, Page 3

Feilding Technical Classes

In those days of keen competition among young people for employment in tho better position in tho commercial professional world, tho best training available is being sought. To supply this, particularly for those young people who have only a portion of their time free for extra education, tho Feilding Technical classes are particularly suitable in that a highly skilled staff and all the essential equipment is available. Classes are held in all branches of commercial training —art, book-keeping, shorthand and typewriting and business methods. Wood-work and, dress-making classes supply that creative hobby interest linked with that utilitarian value which is so essential in these days. Finally in a very finely equipped and new art room, many fascinating and attractive classes are available in a wide variety of arts and crafts. Theso cater for both old and young and include leather work, marqueterie, dargeena, pewter work, painting, illuminated lettering, block printing, stencilling, suede work, drawing, and design, and that greatest craft of all ages—pottery. In commercial art the course comprises ticket and show card writing, poster design and newspaper layout. Thcro is available for the use of all students, an. art library which is probably the most modern, comprehensive, and expensive in any school, in -New Zealand,