The Gas Cooking Record.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 369

The Gas Cooking Record.

Norwich has in use 18,000 gas cookers and 18,000 slot gas meters, and this total is not equalled by any other cfty of the same t population—just over 100,000.

North Canterbury, from the earliest days of colonisation well to the front in the cause of education, has iecently added to its great services a great achievement by establishing a College of Technical Instruction as a memorial to the lamented statesman who, as ministerial head of the Education Department, had the canse of technical education so much at heart. The Right Hon. R. J. Seddon was never weary during his life of dilating on the necessity for special instruction on all technical lines, without which, he always strongly urged, the industries and commerce of this Country would be unable to cope with the competition of the well instructed, enterprising nations of the civilised world. Nothing, therefore, could be more honouring to his memory than the association of his name for all time with an institution of the comprehensive aims and generoxis proportions, founded with Government help, according to law, by the people of North Canterbury and now under construction in their enterprising City of Christchurch. Early History and Present Position. The story goes back to 1902, a date long prior to the death of Mr. Seddon. In November of that year, a guarantee fund having been established by various public and local bodies, managers were elected by the contributors in accordance with the Manual and Technical Instruction Act. During 1903 Continuation classes were held at Richmond and Sydenham, Continuation and Technical classes in Victoria hall, and Practical classes in workshops rented from the City Council in Armagh street. With the exception of the classes at Richmond * and Sydenham,