TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17602, 17 April 1919, Page 9

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

The monthly meeting , of ■&© Board of Governors of tho King Edward Technical College waa hold yesterday; present—Messrs T. Soott (chairman). E. A. Rosovear, C. E.. Hayward, D. H. Mawson, E. F. Duthie, J. A. Hasletfc, J. H. Wilkinson, end W. K, Brugh.

Tho Finance Committee recommended that accounts amounting to £355 12s 6d and salaries amounting to. £512 7s 2d bo passed ior payment.—-Adopted. The Vyorka Committee recommended that tondera"'be called for the supply of 400 folding chairs for the Burt Hall, application to be made for a grant-in-aid, and that a roughcast straight concrete wall bo erected on the York place boundary. A general acheme of levelling and sotting out the ground between the hall and tho main building was under consideration.—Adopted. Tho Director reported that thero had been a further increase in the attendance at tho evening classes. Owinrr to the late enrolment of students and also owing to the sizo of the classes, it had been deemed inadvisable to accept, daring the present quarter at least, any more applications for admission to the chemistry and motor engineering classes. The class for sheet metal workers had mode a satisfactory start, and the classes for singing, musical training, and voice production were well attended. Tho time table had been arranged so that Mr Solby jwoodwork _ instructor) would be free on Monday mornings, and ho (the director) therefore suggested that the woodwork class for tho boys of the Christian Brothers' School should be resumed. A number of locker seats were required for tho girls' cloak rooms.— Adopted. A letter was received from the Minister of Education etating that the department did not favour the proposal to erect a girls' hostel on the present school site, as it considered the site was not large enough for the requirements of the college, let alone for the building of a hosteL The department recommended that the board should obtain a more suitable site for the building.—The letter was referred to the special committee appointed to deal with the hostel question for a report.

D ' rector of Education \7ibt« statin? tnat tne department had agreed to make the grant asked for the erect*™ of a motor garage, to enable a thorough couise of motor engineering to be taught—Tte Works Committee was empowered to call for and accept tendera for the work Mr Marshal] was appointed in response to a request from the Repatriation Board that rt should be given the assistance of a repreeentative from the Technical College .The janitor (Mr Rdbert Little) wrote resigmng hwpoation from April 30 owine- to bis. not _ being granted a war bonus.—The rcsipattonvras accepted, a month's Balary to be gTanted. J

ANNUAL REPORT.

The animal report states that thi number of pupiia admitted to Sβ Technical High School reached an increase of 83 on the previous year's hgurea. Indudmg returned soldiers, for the technical classes was m 1915 , when 1278 couThe erection was completed during the P<*t eess lO n of the Burt Hall, which* con of seating 600 people. It is to be used for quffed, and the classes for singing, music, SfIZF"? P^ 1 " o *™. which ale being '«£ £L^ e . will t? **.* luD cheon room, and the other part oontaina a email tepiTbath in wnidi swimming lessons are given to th P pupDa of the Tecfinical High ScCl Thl total cost of the building was £472, which includes £2428 paid mnce ihe end oFlhe SSSS? 1 £**• f «>m present indications the managers anticipate that the increaeedx attendance as olasses for which provision has already been made, and the d Or *£•? establishment of olasses for additional subjeots, are likely within the near future to necessitate considerable additions to the present building Concerning the institution of a course in agriculture, the report states that the board nas acquired from Messrs Howden and Moncneff a smaJl home farm of 39 acres in the . Wafcara distract, with an old seven-roomed house and outbuildings.. The ground contained about 80 acrea suitable for the plough, and it ia proposed to cultivate as much as is required to supply the house end the school, and to provide exoeri- % Jnental plots for a, complete course of fieldwork to meet the requirements of the first •nd second-year pupfls of the agricultural course. The rest of the ground fa to be ?sed for grazing ana for plantations. It is considered that the farm will be able to produce all the milk, eggs, and ve«£ *l±L i doTeW? SoS Sfwr u° f th l 'J? , ? 001 Jt » to establish a hostel on the farm, and ihe managers hope to make provision for the Mcommodation of 20 to 25 boys. Once this; small place is in working order, the board will make an effort to acquire, within 10 or 15 milea of Dranedin, a farm of such size as will enable it to enter on all the work required for third and fourth-year agricultural students. The possession of such a farm would enable a complete coarse in practical agriculture to be given as one of the rully organised departments of school woric. > The equipment purchased during the year includes a motor car and several sets of cookery ufenak.. typewriters ordered m 1917 came to.hand dimng the

ie. « e , Da,anoe &<** a credit of £699 los 4d, as compared with £4211 Os 10d at the beginning of the year. This fe accounted for by the fact that £2549 from fte boards own ftmds was expended on bunding and £1507 on the farm. The board expresses Ha indebtedness to the Otago University authorities for their liberality m granting free places to leading students, m Engteh, physics, and chemistry. to the publio bodies and the Rener&J rviiWrnforthe liberal rapport accorded the Kmg Edward Technical Oolleg©; and to the members of the staff for the interest and entlrasiasm displayed in the dischanro of their dirties. • b