ENGINEERING CLASSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23902, 28 February 1941, Page 8

ENGINEERING CLASSES

FACILITIES ARRANGED Arrangements were made yesterday whereby auxiliary workers for the engineering industry will be trained at the Seddon Memorial Technical College. Jt is expected the classes will start ,on March 17 and that at the outset -10 trainees will attend. Hitherto the difficulty has been one of accommodation. The Technical College was willing to take the classes if it could obtain suitable other facilities for the pupils at ttie college who would be displaced. This was overcome at a conference yesterday attended by Mr. I?. A. Row. chairman of the board of governors of the college, Mr. G. «T. Park, principal, Mr. A. W. Nisbet, organiser of emergency training under the Department of Supply, and Mr. F. C. Reynard, superintendent of technical education. The solution of the difficulty is that several classes from the college will lie housed during the daytime in the Workers' Educational Association classrooms in the old Grammar School buildings iii Syinonds Street. Immediately following the conference, workmen sl ai'tod I lie conversion of two of the engineering classrooms at the college into three. This work and the rearrangement, of plant will probably occupy a fortnight.