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for the maintenance work in a Junior Technical School, and make light
metal work in the final year a possibility.
Laborator.
It is proposed to equip the laboratory for work in Engineering Science up to the level of the Ordinary National Certificate in England. It is proposed to spread the expenditure over three years should the students progress sufficiently quickly. This equipment, with certain additions, would be very suitable for "part time" work
during at least the first two years of apprenticeship. Provision will
also be made for the supply of essential pieces of apparatus to the Mechanics Classes of the Technical Institute.
Demonstration Equipment:-
Since the classes in "Technical English" will deal with the
parts of various machines, their names and functions, it is essential
to the practical teaching of the subject that actual machines should
be available for demonstration purposes.
It is not contemplated that the engines, etc., should ever be
run, so that condemned machinery will be very suitable, provided it
is not too obsolete in pattern. A start has been made by the acquisi- tion of a motor car engine from the Sanitary Department, and it is
hoped that in course of time a small vertical steam engine and a
small electric motor will be available.
It will probably be possible to add small items from time to
time until a representative collection of machine parts will be
assembled.
It is contemplated that models for Building Construction
classes will be obtained at a later date.
Library: -
The Board of Education (England) has laid it down that the
provision of a suitable library is essential to the running of a
Technical School, and has, on occasions, described a library of
200 volumes as inadequate.