TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN AUCKLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13940, 27 June 1907, Page 7

TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN AUCKLAND.

REMARKABLE PROGRESS.

(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 26. In tho course of li.'s annual report, laid before thoßoard of Education, Sir George George, director of manual and technical education, slated that great strides woro being made with education in this district, fitting young mon and women for the practical side of life, The number of pupils was not only much in advance of the previous year, but tho quality of tho work showed steady improvement. There was at last a fair prospect, of an up-to-date college lwing eroded in Auckland. With tho donations from tho Auckland Savings Bank, citizens, and students, and f-lio Government subsidy thereon, and a Government grant, of £4000, a sum of practically £33.000 was avajlab'e. Plans had been approved by tho department, and before many months (lie erection of tho buildings should ho begun. For tho past four sessions technical classes had been carried on in Auckland iu sheds and other temporary buildings quite unfitted for the purpose. These buildings had been scattered over different parts of the town, and Iho work of organisation in (onncctinn with tho large number of students (nearly 1000) had been rendered much more difficult. He trusted tho time was not far distant, when technical schools and colleges in New /calami would receive from tho Arbitration Court the measure of recognition which was duo to them, and that apprentices would lie allowed by their employers to attend day technical classes.