TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7659, 18 June 1896, Page 4

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

[To ing Kbitob of the Hebaid.] •'■ ■ : Sir, — Your correspondent " A Worker" . ia in doubt about the true meaning and benefits to be derived from a technical -f' education by men and boys. He a^ks if ; , Jo ' would interfere with our present ■education system. To that I say no ; but would go hand in hand with it. In the \ competitive contract system the man with < a technical education would have a great "advantage over his competitors who had vino technical knowledge. A man can "never, arrive at the head of his trade or i profession without a thorough technical knowledge of it, and must therefore i\ expect less - pay for an inferior grade of Vw'ork. - You can hardly limit what might »be taught in a technical sohool. As to coat, the Government is prepared to assist) in the matter. The writer is prepared to -give a lecture on technical education if - *' : A Worker "or workers would get one of the schoolrooms for that purpose and ; . appoint a night. Another Worker.

' A petition from the Marlborough and ' other .Eduoation Boards praying for the re-adjustment of capitation grants giving ■ft more equitable proportion to bodies -maintaining a large number of small schools is to be presented to Parliament by Colonel Baillie, M.L.C., and Mr Buiok/ ;M.H.K. .

I-"., We ; (North Otago Times) are told that - a young scapegrace walked iuto oue of the •; local banks the other day and aaked for a draft on, a crop. of oats he was possessed Iqf. • ." What sort of oats?" asked the . "Wild 'uns," said the questioner j and immediately the bank shot ,gdn was hauled out from beneath the counter, and he was told to go to Invercargil), as x it was only there that drafts were given on a cypher. A return was laid on the table of the JSfer- South Wales Assembly by the PreL^iniet; giving the cost of -the Royal Oom--1 mission 'appointed to inquire into the Deaa case and trial. It shows that the total expenses amounted to L 4554. The chief items in this amount are : — Fees to ' Sir Julian Salomons, Q. 0., L 66 5; to Mr ! P. E. Bogers, Q. 0., L 409 ;Dr P. Sydney '■ ; Jones, L 28 6; Ur F. N. Manning, LW3 ; T" MrG. G. Wade, L 76; secretary, shorthand 'writers, and typewriters, L 1358, of which :■ sum the secretary received L 414 for secre- / tarial and ehorttiand work and L 315 for '■making a precis of the evidence at the Police Court, Central Criminal Court, and "Royal Commission, and the assistant ;.TSeoretary and shorthand writer received -;, ; : }I»310, while a third shorthand writer j received L 244.

V,' -,-A well-known resident of Kangitikei, r-Mr Arthur Amon, of Scott's Ferry, met ; with his death under sad oiroumstances

'on Saturday last. He went out duck •shooting in the morning, and as he did Hi not return at night a aearoh party was -organised early on Sunday, and Mr Amon ».waß- found by his son and auother of the •party lying dead close to the lake at which : ; v : he had been shooting. Eight dead ducks f/nfereon'the ground oloae to him, and as • he had one boot and stocking off ib is /Supposed that he had either been intend(tSjttfg- to. go into the lake for another : .;&uok or had just returned from doing so "rjjir he^rhe'was overcome. Dr Bennett had '.examined Mr Amon only a few weeks vbeldre, and had informed him that he had disease of the .heart. The unfortunate li^xaaa when-found' was lying back with his J/Cap Tfolded'.under his head and. one hand against his heart. Vory great eyinjiajby. is felt for Mrs Amon in her J-ObeireaVem'ent by people all over the West ;f r jooalßt, ' the house at Scott's Ferry being pypEoverbial f or its hospitality. New Zealand Times sayß that an gjjobjobt; lesson in poverty was seen a few jtfwghts : ago ; when the police raided an I'jßmpty ;store in Willis street, the property £if Mr Jacob Josoph, and found four able j;ibdclied men huddled together on the floor $j%M\ooyotfi- with a quantity of brown : On being searched their EigqpdVand chattels were found to consist !|Jf afev^ppoket-handkerohiefs and collars jlflnd^ther odds and ends, while the four |||ngfi£jM ; ;i&t .'*" single penny in their |pf6wJfoio^";VA~' - ; _ . ' ■ .

Wellington, is a deservedly Many, of our thrifty plntJ-Sf^ionable people find it to- their M|g^^g?i;;t6.oraer their -requirements io ° iffi%t\Fyr>Dd.'houße-furnUhiDg from the Com- . Reliable pK«»i ;|^oderate priceß, ia the featuro of S^rWSls?'A'' : Baniptes:- and catalogues are addreßs.~Advti.