VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17140, 21 April 1919, Page 6

VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

o ARRANGEMENTS AT ROTORUA. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] 1 ROTORUA, Saturday. About 140 soldiers have expressed their. ; intention of attending the vocational j I j classes now being organised at King j ' j George V. Hospital, at Rotorua. A conI j siderable proportion of these men desire j , instruction in subjects connected with I , farming; for instance, 23 wish for teaching j - in the management of animals, 22 in wool- j ; classing, and 12 in dairying. Thirty-four' v men have entered the classes for general i commercial training, and 12 have joined I the class for instruction in motor . engineering. Carpentering, basket-making, I • and other occupations also have classes . devoted to them, and the scope of opera- :'! tions is being enlarged. It is intended to . I start a class for boot repairing shortly. , One man is being taught sign-writing by , correspondence. There are at present nine t instructors at tho hospital, and, in addii tion, officers of the Agricultural Depart- , ment will visit Rotoriia. Mr. W. H. j Montgomery, director of vocational traini I '"Si arrived this week on business con- . I nocted with the classes; and Major Pen--3! lington, vocation officer for the Auckland [, district, has been here for some weeks 3 supervising the arrangements. 9