MANUAL FARMING.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16828, 21 June 1926, Page 4

MANUAL FARMING.

ITS VALUE IN SCHOOLS. Viscount Burnham, who opened Ft. George's Central Schools at liainsgate, first saw llic hoys aiul girls at work, and a tier visiting the cookery centre j said he was preally impressed wiili its i possibilities tor improving ilte whole : : fortunes of Hie local eommunily in ! making life for summer visitors more j j agreeable and palatable. Five hundred J and lifly children cheered Lord ISurn- ! ham when he secured for them a i promise of an extra day's holiday. Lord Uurnham said that central schools were a characderistic development of British education. In the ! teen competition of our modern world it was only those who had manual ■ training and were aide to increase the ■ productive rapacity of a nation who j would enable us to brave the s! >rms of fate and take advantage of the chances that we had of maintaining ; the prosperity of tin unlry. Maximum prodiudiou must he j sough! and that was only possible j through a maximum of efliriency. We ; ought to aim ai making ilie whole of ! i our community as well equipped as it could lie for the tests and trials of I I lie I'll! lire. “1 hope and believe,'’ he j said. “Ihat. file lerni unskilled man or j unskilled woman will soon lie an I anaelironism." j .Mr Ksmond llarmswortli. VI. I>. for j Thanet. said ilte schools were a vain- j able link between the Olitireh and Ihe Plate. ;