WOOL-CLASSING LESSONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17212, 14 July 1919, Page 4

WOOL-CLASSING LESSONS

POPULAR SUBJECT FOR SOLDIERS. IBY telegram.—own CORRESPONDENT. 1 9 WELLINGTON, Sunday. Among the great variety of subjects taught to soldiers by the vocational and educational training branch of the Defence Department, wool-clashing seems to be one of the most popular. Some of the soldiers are taking it up with a view to goine into the woo! business when their medical treatment is complete, but most of them secure this useful instruction with the idea of utilising knowledge when they take' up land, under Government assistance, and become farmers. Mr. W. T. Hambly, a wool classing expert, engaged by the Auckland Education Board, is malting a tour of the North Island, giving instruction to soldiers and civilians. In Christchurch a special instructor has been appointed to hold classes f«r soldiers on'.y. and the use of a woo) store, owned by one of the large firms, has been secured. As a large number of soldiers have expressed a desire to attend, this class will be well attended. At Hanmer, where instruction is given in farming generally, a wool-shed is being built for the purpose of wool-sorting c-asses. Instruction in wool classing for the soldier patients at Timaru is to he given at the Technical School, and here again a large class is anticipated. There is also a -attended class in the subject at the Dimedin Technical School. The interest created by these classes among returned soldiers will, it is hoped, induce a number of them to settle on tha land. If they become farmers the knowledge gained will be of substantial value when they have woolsheds of their own.