TECHNICAL EDUCATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21454, 30 March 1933, Page 11

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

DEVELOPMENT AT OTAHUHU SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S VIEWS A discussion concerning the future educational policy which should be pursued by the Otahuhu Technical High School Committee took place at a meeting of the committee on Tuesday evening. The matter was raised at the last meeting when the chairman, *Mr. C. R. Petrie, submitted a suggestion that with a view to meeting the needs of the district the committee should press for the technical side of the school being developed to the fullest degree, and that, if necessary, Form I. of the intermediate division should be temporarily abandoned. Further consideration was given to the matter this week when the principal, Mr. F. W. Martin, submitted a report on the altered status of the school. He stated that in future the school would be officially known as the Otahuhu Technical High School. He also pointed out that with the intermediate division attached to the school there was a unique opportunity of providing complete education for the pupils right through their adolescent stages. It was decided on the motion of Mr. F. G. Massey to forward the following resolution to the Education Board:— "That with a view to completely meeting the needs of the district as a technical high school, the guiding principle should be to provide higher classes to the full capacity of the school for the, time being, so as to absorb as many pupils as possible from standards VI. of the contributory schbols before taking any pupils from standards V."