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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4871, 24 January 1903, Page 5

COMMERCIAL EDUCATIOIL. A need has been felt in Wellington for; some time past for means whereby those! who required it could obtain technical' training to fit them for business and conn.! rnercinl jiursuits. In this we have con-, fessedly been beliind the other Australaw sian colonies, where busings training' colleges are well established, and furnish; an important factor in the oommercaalj life of those States. And Australia has; onlv followed the lead of the great com-' mei'cial countries of the Old and New. Worlds. And now we have the Wellington Business Training College, the open-’ ing 'advertisement of which appears in our columns to-day. Its system is up tot the standard of similar institutions in Australia and America, and when its' value is recognised, the old anomaly will lie removed, the anomaly that belonged to commercial life only, viz., that the_ beginner expected to pick up his life's training in a haphazard way—in his employer's time—and draw a salary meanwhile. The old system of teaching bookkeeping consisted’ of giving a youth a printed series of transactions and setting him to copy those out into copy-l>ooks—-that is, transcribing from type to manuscript. But the system adopted by the Wellington Business Training College is more in accordance with modem methods and requirements. The student makes entries into his cash-book,.from notes and cheques received and paid away. He enters up his invoice-book from invoices received—those he endorses and files away neatly. Ho makes out invoices, etc, press-copies them and despatches them to his imaginary buyer. Tho not result is that, having completed his course, he is fit to take his place at once in a merchant’s or other office, perform his duties intelligently, and the nature of his knowledge and methods recommend himself for rapid promotion. This is the invariable experience of students of similar institutions in other countries. 403

A lady cyclist rode from Marble Arch’ to John o’ 'Groats, thence to Land's End, and back to the starting place, a distance of 1860 miles in 18d 23hr 23min. Her average mas nearly £3 miles a day.