TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3867, 24 April 1928, Page 61

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

MONTHLY MEETING OF MANAGERS. At the monthly meeting of the King Edward Technical College managers on Wednesday there were present Mr T Seott (chairman), Mrs M. Messrs J. T Paul, J. Horn, E. F. Duthie, W H, Steel. F. L. Lawrence, G. Clark and J. Heaney. A letter from the Education Department replied to the request that free passes be granted to pupils from such centres as Milton and Palmerston who wished to take a course at the Dunedin Technical High School, and w ho had secured the written permission of the head teacher of the nearest seeondarv school. The department hrd decided that each case must be referred to Wellington. The letter was received. The Principal (Mr W. G. Aldridge; reported that the number of pupils in the college remained almost stationary. Some care had been taken 'o get into touch with all last year’s evening students whose work was satisfactory, and who had failed to enrol this year, and only about one hundred pupils out of some four hundred needed such a reminder. It appeared that most of the four hundred had either left during the 1927 session or had made little progress at evening classes, so that the break of four months due to the vacation was not a serious factor in reducing enrolments for the subsequent year. One thousand and forty-five pupils had so far enrolled this year.

A second class in cookery had opened, and a class in theory of structures had been abandoned for lack of support. Small classes in art needlework and home craft were- being allowed to carry on for the present, but their continuance was hardly justified if their roll numbers did not increase. An advanced class in economics with ten pupils on the roll was opened subject to the Education Department’s approval, and the department had now replied that approval was not now dependent on the size of the class only, but upon whether the work was advanced enough to be regarded as competing with University classes. The report was adopted together with committee reports.