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1898. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: MANUAL AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION. NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS BY ARTHUR D. RILEY, DIRECTOR FOR TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION TO THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE WELLINGTON DISTRICT, NATIONAL SCHOLAR AND GOLD MEDALIST OF THE SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT, LONDON, ETC.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

OOHSTTIEITTS. p age. I Page. Introduction .. .. .. 1 (5.) General trades .. .. .. 53 I. Primary instruction .. .. .. (6.i Domestio and women's department .. 54 (1.) Kindergarten .. .. .. 2 (7.) Miscellaneous .. .. .. 55 (2.) Drawing .. .. .. 4 V. Agricultural and mining .. 55 (3.) Brush-work .. .. .. 6 (1.) Agricultural instruction .. .. 55 (4.) Elementary science .. .. 8 (2.) Mining instruction .. 71 (5.) Manual instruction .. .. 16 VI. Commercial education .. .. 72 (6.) Domestic instruction .. .. 24 VII. General .. .. .. 75 11. Intermediate or secondary instruction .. 29 (1.) Physical training, recreation, and social 75 (1.) Evening continuation schools .. 29 (2.) Scholarships .. .. .. 75 (2.) Higher-grade schools .. ..30 (3. Examinations .. ..77 (3.) Farm schools .. .. 36 (4. Training of teachers .. .. 78 (4.) Secondary schools .. ..36 (5. Buildings and appliances .. .. 78 111. Schools of art and art-crafts .. .. 36 (6.) Museum and libraries .. 79 (1.) Drawing, painting, modelling, and design 36 (7.) Administration .. ..80 (2.) Arts and crafts .. .. .. 40 VIII. Recommendations .. .. 81 (3.) Miscellaneous .. .. .. 42 Conclusion .. .. .. 81 IV. Science and technology .. .. 43 Appendix A—Kea Street, Birmingham, time(l.) Introductory and apprenticeship .. 43 table .. .. .. .. .. 82 (2.) Chemistry, mathematics, physics, &c.. 46 Appendix B—Scholarship regulations of the Lon(3.) Architecture and the building-trades .. 49 don County Council .. 86 (4.) Metal-trades .. .. .. 51 Appendix C—Syllabus of elementary drawing .. 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. Page. 1. Cutting out in coloured paper, facing .. 3 8. Laundry-work, facing .. .. 28 2. Shoulder-work (4 plates), facing .. 5 9. Secondary technical work, facing .. 36 3. Brush-work (6 plates), facing .. 6 10. Manchester Art School, facing .. 40 4. Manual instruction exercises (4 plates), 11. Home arts, facing .. .. 42 facing .. .. ..19 12. Technical-class rooms (4 plates), facing 55 5. Plan of Goodrich Road Centre .. 26 13. Dairy instruction, facing .. 69 6. Manual instruction and plan of class- 14. Farriery instruction, facing .. 71 room (2 plates), facing .. ..22 15. Recreative instruction, facing .. 75 7. Cookery centres, facing .. .. 26

WELLINGTON.

1898.