TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR MOTUEKA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1919, Page 6

TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR MOTUEKA

DEPUTATION TO EDUCATION BOARD. A deputation from Motudka, consisting of Messrs Oliver, Birdie, Goodall, King, and Eggers waited on the Education Board this afternoon with reference to the a exposition of land and building a Technical School at Motueka. Mr Oliver said the matter had been in hand for five years, and the Committee felt that the Board was not proceeding with the expedition they should. The Board had also instituted a comclass which had been discontinued, and the Committee was hot given the reason. It was stated there were no instructors available, but the | 'Committee could get .nsl/.uctors local |y. The Chairman (Mr F. \\. 0. Smith' «a‘id the Board ahd been doing its best tight through. Amicable arrangements could not be made to purennse ihe land, and it was being aopnved under the Public Works AT. It was impossible, under the Act to expedite the tors,..and It would be three months before the Compensation Court woukt adjudicate. With record v.* the commercial classes the pi situm was not an cas? one. Tl.v evpoi.sc of sending instructors was hea*y. and there was a great difficult yin ge.ting them. The Department w«ild not recognise insructois unless they had ertiefiaces, and would not pay capitatid.n Mr Scantlebmy said Reefton was in the same position as Motueka. Mr Baigen: said that Motueka was not neglected by the Board. They could not get ahead of the Education Department.