TECHNICAL SCHOOLS AND MILITARY DRILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 July 1927, Page 16

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS AND MILITARY DRILL

BOARD VOICES PROTEST Several important remits to be forwarded to the annual conference of the Technical Education Association of New Zealand occupied the attention of the Board of Governors of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, which met yesterday. Three of the remits were as follow: (1) That the attention of the Minister of Education be drawn to the fact that the greater part of the moneys spent on national scholarships and university bursaries, amounting to a considerable annual sum, is spent on persons being educated for the professions; that to avoid this and equalise advantages to students, a definite portion of the money available for such purposes should be allocated to trade, agricultural and domestic science scholarships. (2) That the present system of salary payments to full-time teachers in technical schools be amended so that each position will have a definite salary attached to it. (3) That the Minister of Defence should be urged to free from compulsory drill in the evening all boys attending night classes on two evenings in each week. INTERFERENCE WITH WORK The director, Mr. G. T. Park, stated that the military duties of the boys were seriously interfering with their school work by demanding that they drill one night in every week. He urged that a strong protest should be sent to the department. When a boy agreed to go to camp in February he should be free from drills for the remainder of the year. It would be better if the boys did their training in advance and then the department could not accuse them of making excuses at the end of the year. The remits were adopted.