TEACHERS’ FARM SCHOOL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14582, 3 February 1921, Page 5

TEACHERS’ FARM SCHOOL

GOOD WORK DONE. ACCOMMODATION NEEDED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Thursday. A complaint regarding the inadequate accommodation for teachers attending the farm school held at Ruakura last week was embodied in a i - dport presented by the supervisor of manual and technical training, Mr J. P. Kalaugher, to the Education Board. The report paid a high tribute to the work of the lecturers and the students, and also to the value of the comprehensive syllabus, hut drew attention to the fact that the new block of buildings erected for Hie housing of soldiers was insufficient, and a number of teachers had to be quartered in the loft at the stables. Further, there was no room for the women teachers, who had to secure accommodation in Hamilton —an unsatisfactory procedure in view of the costliness and Hie loss of time through transit. To lessen the handicap thus imposed upon those enthusiastic women teachers, who were prepared to incur such expense in order to secure the benefits of Hie course, the Board decided to strongly urge Hie Department to proceed with the erection of further buildings.