TRAINING YOUTHS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22539, 2 October 1936, Page 12

TRAINING YOUTHS

SPECIAL CLASSES CARPENTRY AND JOINERY Tho establishment of special classes in carpentry and joinery to give such a training to youths of 18 to 23 years of age as would convert an unskilled worker into one capable of doing at least much of the ordinary work of a carpenter, was suggested by the principal of the Seddou Memorial Tecl/nical College, Mr. G. J. Park, in a report presented at a meeting of the board of managers yesterday.

Mr. Park stated tlint ho had applied to the Director of Education for authority to begin those special day classes, following upon the address of the Minister of Education to tho Technical Education Association's conference at Wellington last week.

" Tho State is sotting out on a. house building campaign, and there will he a great demand for carpenters and joiners," continued Mr. Park. " The time is therefore opportune to establish such a class which will follow the system adopted after the war for tho rehabilitation of returned soldiers. Jt would train 20 boys, who, after six to nine months would be givon a test, and if successful, would reooivo a certificate of proficiency in elementary carpentry and joinery."

Mr. Park said that in respect to such classes, ho l'elt that tho help of men engaged in the building trade would be an invaluable assistance to him in working out the details of tho theoretical and practical instruction courses to be arranged. Such advisory committees of practical men were used in many other schools, and he desired to have the board's authority to appoint such a committee, if the Minister of Education authorised him to proceed with the classes, and sufficient enrolment's were made to justify beginning such classes.

The board finally decided that the report should be considered at tho next .meeting