TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 December 1937, Page 4

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

The closing of the Masterton Technical School will bring to an end a separate institution which has rendered the community excellent service over a long period of years. It has produced some of the most competent tradesmen the town has ever had, and firms have repeatedly experienced the advantage of having pupils from the school on their staffs, whether in a manual or clerical sphere., It is many years since the school set out on its instructive career, the technical classes having been first established in the Drill Hall 41

years ago, with Mr C. E. Daniell as chairman of the Board of Managers, and the late Mr E. Brown as secretary-supervisor. The new school in Dixon Street was opened in 1908, and twenty-nine years later further progress is to be made by removal to the High School grounds, where the combined institution will be known as the Wairarapa College. Over its long career the Technical School has been well served in the matter of teachers, and on its roll has been some of the most expert instructors to be found in the educational history of the Dominion. The technical portion of the education of our youth is of such vital importance to the whole community that the policy of the future must be one of continued progress. From the technical side of the new College must come our tradesmen, who should have. a good grounding in their preliminary work in order to properly fill their place in industry. Much, therefore, depends upon keeping technical instruction up to a high standard.