TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14051, 22 July 1916, Page 7

TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

With the idea of bringing tlie Technical School up to date, some necessary alterations have been made to the building. Hie apartment formerly used as a cookery room for the girls lias been dismantled. It is proposed to hold in. this room telegraphic classes for members of tlie P. and T. staff, telephone exchange girls, and outsiders. The main room of the old> High School building, which, up to a few weeks ago contained the museum, has been fitted up as a kitchen. For cooking purposes there is an ordinary coal range, with a low pressure boiler, and two gas stoves aro being installed, and also a high pressure boiler. There are a number of gas rings for each of the cooking benches. v The demonstration bench, used by tlie cookery instructor, Miss Sandilands, has a sink attached, so" that work can be done at one end. and the dishes immediately pin) out of the way. Each of the gas rings has an asbestos mat to save burning the benches. On the eastern end of the room are the sinks, pot cupboards, and shelves for various articles. The various cupboards ., have the purpose for which they are intended to be used painted on their doors by the children. At this end of the room also is a cupboard, in which chemicals are kept, to be used in the analysis and testing of food, a branch, of cooking to which particular attention is given by Miss Sandilands. Off this end of the room is a pantry, suited to the requirements of the class. Each girl in her respective class has her own special duty, and these are enumerated on lists on the wall. Atj the western end are situated more cupboards for the cups "and saucers, pot stands, rolling pins, and mixing bowls. With up-to-date appliances it is intended to teach children scientific cooking, not in the old-fashioned way, merely to teach them how to cook, but so that they should learn how food affects the body and in regard to the elements of various foods. The children attending the class do- their own marketing, and the _ accounts \ are' checked by the monitors, 'to ses that they are getting value for their mor.ey, thus educating, the pupils in housekeeping. The science laboratory, although not an innovation , fior really up to date, should also be mentioned, as here the pupils make their own experiments, thus gaining a better interest in the chemical work they are being taught. Mr. Rowley hopes; by th 6 opening of the telegraphic class, to bring the Technical School roll above 100. The nurses at the Public Hospital have been taking lessons,, under Miss Sandilands, in the evenings, in cooking for invalids, and excellent progress has class for another section of the nurses has been) arranged. ■■■/..,:•