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Mensuration.-Areas of other geometrical figures and also areas by Simpson's rules. Volumes of solids etc. and application of Simpson's rules to volumes.
Technical-(i) Shipbuilding-Various structures throughout ship. Deck, fittings such as bollards, fairleads etc., together with arrangements and purposes. Capstan, anchor, and windlass gear. Arrangements of cabin furniture. Laying of wood decks, ceiling, sparring etc. Mould loft work. Erecting and fairing-boat arrangements derrick arrangements etc. Deck machinery, pumping and piping.
(ii) Engineering.---General boiler construction, action of steam in cylinders, con- denser pumps. Details of cylinders, piston etc. Steering gears. Windlass, capstan and winches. Steam piping arrangements, sea cocks, stern tubes etc. Elementary
heat.
Elementary electricity.
Elementary steam....
It is suggested that for the first two years all apprentices attending evening classes might work according to the same curriculum, and that in the third year it would be necessary to divide the classes for technical training only.
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101. We have set out these curricula to indicate that the engineering firms and The others have given the matter considerable thought. With these suggestions before teaching of him the Principal of the Technical School should have no difficulty in working out a and of suitable course for the Junior Technical School and for the Evening Classes. All instruction the curricula set out above have reference to the shipbuilding and engineering essential. industry, but Mr. Holmes' suggested syllabus gives valuable material for the designing of courses for building apprentices. The question how far, if at all, it will be possible to differentiate the Junior Technical School course for future workers in the building industry is one which will have to be solved in the light of experience. Some of the suggested curricula omit Chinese from the syllabus of the Junior Technical School. This would be in our opinion a mistake. We think that Chinese should certainly be taught in the Junior Technical School and that emphasis should be laid on the capacity to translate from English into Chinese and vice versa simple sentences likely to be useful to the coming apprentice in this future work. We think that the suggested compilation of an Anglo-Chinese dictionary of materials used in shipbuilding and engineering is an excellent one. We hold it to be important that manual instruction (woodwork) should be a compulsory part of the Junior Technical School course.
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102. We recommend that a European Woodwork Instructor for the Junior The Technical School should be engaged locally and the Director of Education suggests gland that this instructor might visit the Central British School and King's College where its cost. this work is now handled by part-time men at so much an hour. We think that a suit- able salary would be $400 a month with a liberal travelling allowance. We think that teaching of English, mathematics, geometry, science and Chinese required in the Junior Technical School, could be handled, to begin with, by two University- trained graduate teachers. We understand that these teachers are now on a salary scale which ranges from $1,800 a year to $6,000 a year by eight annual increments of $150 and 15 of $200. Such teachers must be appointed in their appropriate scale and we are estimating the cost of each at $1,800 a year. Building construction could possibly be taught, to start with, by a part-time teacher at $7 an hour--the rate now paid by the Technical Institute. The non-technical subjects taught in the evening classes should be handled by the whole-time teachers of the Junior Technical School. It will not be difficult to find capable teachers of the technical subjects. All the teachers of the evening classes would presumably be paid at the rate of $7 an hour. It is suggested that the evening classes should meet for two four-hour periods. each week for two sessions which are to extend from the 1st October to Chinese New Year; and from Chinese New Year to mid-June. The evening classes will be there- fore held for roughly seven months each year, or about 40 weeks. Assuming that the evening classes at the Taikoo and Kowloon Docks will be duplicated so as to provide for the separate instruction of Group A and Group B apprentices, and that Building Apprentices will have two hours of separate instruction a week, we arrive