Technological Instruction.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 December 1905, Page 33

Technological Instruction.

Considerable progress has been made by controlling authorities throughout the colony in the direction of improving existing arrangements and providing additional facilities for instruction m subjects of technology and manual training. The number of technical, continuation, and school classes recognised during 1904 was 2599, as against 2287 for the previous year. Of the classes for 1904, 2001 were classes tor handwork in connection with over 700 primary and secondary schools, while 598 were special, associated, or college classes for instruction in the several branches of pure and applied art and science, and in plumbing, carpentry, and joinery, cookery, dressmaking, and commercial subjects, While the actual number of technical classes was not greatly 111 advance of that for 1903, the returns show a great increase m the average attendance at them. For 1903 the average attendance was about 6300, and for 1904 about 13,700. Technical classes are held at •about fifty different places.