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Annexe III.
REPORT BY THE PRINCIPAL, TRADE & TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
Junior Technical School.
(1) Students on completion of their course continue to be accepted for apprenticeship by local engineering firms on very favourable terms.
(2) Thirty-two students left with certificates in 1937. Of these seventeen are continuing their education by attendance at Evening Institute Classes.
(3) The Sports Field was badly damaged by the typhoon of September, but the damage has now been largely repaired.
(4) For the first time it was possible to run a practical course of instruction in which students prepared drawings, made the patterns, and produced lead castings of the objects drawn.
(5) Owing to the restriction imposed by very small classrooms it is not possible to recruit sufficient entrants in the lowest classes to ensure that normal wastage does not render the top classes of the School uneconomically small. This defect cannot be remedied in the present building.
(6) Attendance Figures were as follows.
Maximum enrolment, 118 Average Attendance, 1937-1938, 110.28 Average Attendance, 1936-1937, 111.36 Decrease in enrolment over 1936-1937, 8Trade School.
(1) The initial equipment purchased in 1936 was installed during the year. The difficulty of obtaining delivery of equipment from home has delayed progress considerably.
(2) The second instalment of equipment was ordered during 1937.
(3) The Department of Wireless Telegraphy opened in February with 20 students, 10 of whom qualified for the 2nd Class Wireless Operators (Restricted) Certificate.
(4) The Department of Building opened in March with 80 students; of these 24 completed the year and 17 qualified for year II of the course.