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Ad has were given by Hon. Dr. I and Mr. R. H. Rogers,

ten ent of Education who ulated the student's and staff upon the good showing made. A reading by Mr. D. nam- Shaw ents‘ names appear belo\v in the and a solo by Mr. George lleers were warmly applauded. The Na- tional Anthem closed the proceed- ings. u.’

THE PRINCIRALS REPORT OF THE YEAR'S WORK,

Tonight's proceedings bring to an 01d the fourth year ot operation o1‘ the Prince Edward Island Agricul- turul and Technical School,

This has been u. successful year-- the most successlul since the school was established totu- years ago. There has been a very gratifying in- crease in attendance, three hundred an, one is the number ot‘ stuticnts enrolled in tiny and night classes this term. 'I‘he first your we registered 106, the second 127. the third 172, and the fourth 309.

We also notice a. marked inlprovo meut. iu the quality of workdone. This is due to a variety of catiscs; lessons leuructl ‘from the PXIWI‘ co ol‘ previous years; regularity 0t‘ nt tendance; a tnarkctl ttbesenct: oi contagious or infection-at tiiseuscs: but mo_r_9~ particularly is the im- provement, title to a superior quul ity of tlfé students who come to II$ this year. The Federal Director of Technical‘ Education in his totirth Annual Report stntcv-i thut iour pro- viucca 01' the Dominion made satis- factory progrcss lust your, llllli Prince .E(i\\'fll‘(l island was onc of them. The other three were Novu Scotio. Ontario and British Colum- Ila.

The courses given were lows:

l. Agriculture, including Live Itoclf, Field Crops, Dairying, Wood- working, Motor Mechanics. Agricul- tural Ghemistry‘ lllld Physics, lliol- ogy. English, Arithmetic, Civics nnd

' Economics.

2. Motor Mechanics, including English; Arithmetic, Physics, Civ ice. Woodworking. anti Motor hie- chanlcs.

3. Three weeks’ ICounse in Cook- ery. Mitlinery. Dressmnkitig, nnd Home Nursing for girls,

4. Two weeks’ course in Cheese and Butter making and in grading dairy products for cheese and but- ter manufacturers,

5. Nightciasses in English, Ar ithmetIm-Show Card Writing, Radio,

as fol

Woodworking. Motor Aiechzinics lil- ‘

ectricflty 'Cookery. Dressnurklutz. Millluery. and Home Nursing for the city students.

Certificates of merit are award- ed to all clay class students who nt- tended , the. required number otl‘ days. passed the neccssnry cxntniuatlotis, and otheYw-ioe complied with the rules and regulations tit-the school.

Following is the Honor Roll:

The competition 't'or first plucc in the graduating class is nlwnyfl keenly contested, and this You!‘ W11“ no exception to tho rule.

The qtudent who stands highest in the Agricultural Class. 1st year is Alvin ‘Myers. Iiazelhroolt, 2nd year, Walter Gill, Vuion Road, in the Motor Mechanics Class, 1st war Vlcbor Cahill. North River, 2nd year, Charles Rice, Montague.

We did not classify’ thc students of the Household Scicncc Ilcpnrt ment. We did not reel equal m the

task. ;

The prizes that you sce licre worn contributed by individuals and firms who are particularly interest- ed in the success of vocational edu- cation in the Province. u

Class, First Class Cor. tlflcatec.

FlrlfYealn-l. Alvin hiyers, 11oz- elhroolt; 2, Everett Lund, Mount Herbert; 3, Ettrl Smith, City; I, Ed- gar Yeo Summereltie.

Second Year:—l, Waller Gill, l‘n ion Road; 2, Parker Wood, South- P011.

Second class

Agricultural

Geriiflcatww-l.

Wilbur Muciioth Stiutllptvrt; 2. An [us Aizviunis. S-uthptirt. Mctbr Mechanics Class-Firs:

cluecertltteazee-i, viUlOI‘ (‘r-l .u. North River; Ion Orwell Gov»; 3 ‘Glarcuct- t)‘- Brien Morel]: 4. Iiambldzc tIwt-ti. City; 5, William Nit-Donald (‘ityz 0. Jniuen Miilttr, Slililitlj" - Lo.» MtlDi-‘JK-‘lii. liiilitllliilil,‘ _ I , s, Lieorgci Pil-ihor Forest llill: it Hor- dou ».\lcl.eod. G-‘cuzri Vlnw; l0, John W, Murhali. Ntw Iluvou; l.i, Wai- ter Wclzeiu, ifllllnflgfitrggt}; 113, Clyde Bochar»; Peter's Road; l1), Merl-ll (iraliuziy, Hitler's Road; l-i,

1 Ivay Coylo, I:.i_~.-_ - bound class Certt1|eatet~.,'_.;,

' vol‘;

2. Warren .\lcl’ht~r,

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to ‘best student In Mathematics, Motor Mechanics Class, won by James Miller.

Ninth prize, Five Dollar Gold PiecefiPresented by the Atlantic Auto Co.. Amherst; to the student ranking highest in subjects of the Second Year, won by Walter Gill.

Home Economics.

The tfollowlng is a list of stud- ent-s of the Three Weeks’ Short Colt-me in Home Economics Who re- ceived certificates at the Technical School lust tiight.

N-ovember - December Olaas:

Margaret Jones, St. Eleonora; liu zel Stead. Wheatlcy River; Hilda Prnught, Git-y; llelcn Gates. Gates‘ Mills; Jenn Eamon, City; Frances Connolly, City; {Ilillitatnit McNutt, Darnlcy; .\Irs, J. P. Crockett. City; Iitlen Clark. City; HildalMcCniluui, City; Erma Gay, City,

January - February Glasses:

Inez Bryentou, l'niou Road; Olga Buntniti, \\'houtlve.y' River; Helen (Trosby, Cornwall; iloris Harper, (filly; Lulu hlycrs. Hampton; Lucy lion-ton.Stimmersitle; Rena hove, City; Lucy McQuuiti, Johnson's RI lrcue Nicholson, Cardigan .\i.'ll‘itl‘l Peudcrgust. Hope River; I clyn Walsh, Mount Stewart; Margaret MacDonald. Southport.

February Class:

llthcl Buell, Murray" Harbor; Mur- iel Iluglics, ‘City; Harriet Nichcuu, Nine hlile Creek; Caroline McLean. i'niou Road; Janet (Tuirns. Stan- clit-l; Margaret InnMotit, City; Ruth Mc-Kiunon, Canoe Cove; Annie Mc- Iltio, CIIIIOp Cove; Katherine Nichol sou. Cttrtligzui; Jean Semple, New (liusgtiyv; Rita lllcDonnid, City; Mu bcl Pound, Glen Vitlley; Mrs. J. A. hiclsnztc, Cardigan.

’l‘li<- outstanding feature of our work this your was the establish- uicnt of courses in Household Science for girls. These consist- ed of o. three weeks’ Short Course iu Home Economics for students from the city and country anti courses. in Cookery, Home Nursing, Mlliincry. nnd Dressmuking for Night Class stutlcuts from the city. l am not. going to take up your time pointing out the value of thcsc t~otlrscs~coilrscs that every young woman who has any serious notion of assuming grave responsibilities ot‘ housekeeping and home making

wlntne, and all these cars are bo- ng uvvlhfllllfid ‘simultaneously. How’ does a man know that he is going to get. his ‘own car buck! I don't know. I can't explain it. You will have to ask- Mr. Whitlock. But this apparent miracle has been going on every term hr four years. and will continue to go on as long as the Technical School endures. and Mr. Whitlock ihfcharxo _ of the Motor Mechanics Department: ‘Another feature of the work at this Vocational School in which we take considerable pride is the work of the Dairying Department. This school has been fitted out with the very beet equipment available for the purpose of testing milk and cream and of manufacturing butter nnd cheese. " ‘ This year we put ' on u two weeks’ short course for cheese and butter manufacturers. The Fed- erul Government sent down two ex- pert graders and manufacturers from Montreal. men who know every detail of the game from the production of the rnw material to the grading and marketing of the finished product. Through the co-operutlou of the Federal and the Local Governments, Mr. Fraser T. Morrow, Provincial Grader. a man who understands local conditions thoroughly, was put in charge. These gentlemen with the cheese anti butter mantlfacturcrs of tho Province went into conference. They coilsiderctl the dairy situ- zttlon from every angle-from the standpoint of the producer, the manufacturer, the dealer, nnd tho

consumer. The second week they mute butter. every pound of which graded "Simcial". This

is work of the greatest importance and work which, i think, this school is well advised in placing special stress upon.

Besides all this work that our ug- riuulttlrul students carry on with Mr. Shaw, Mr Waugh, Mr Whitlock nnd Mr Morrow, they also receive instruction in English, Arithmetic, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Civics and Economics.

The second graduating class we hnve with us tonight is a class in Motor Mechanics. These young nlcn, nnd other classes of a simi- lar kind as a direct result of the training they got here, are worth to this province thousands of dollars every year. I said at our closing exercises three years in succession anti I say it agan-perhnps for the fourth and last tinte-tliat the value oi.’ the motor equipment des- troyed each year in this province for the laok cf knowledge of the mechanical and technical princip- les involved would more than pay

should take. The success of those courses was most pronounced. Forty students cnrollcd in tho day .1.

see was one hundred anti twen ; ty I want to take this opportun- ity nf publicly expressing my ap- preciation of the skill and tact and good judgmcnt exercised by the Supervisor of Household Science CiIISRPH and her assistnnt, togcther

subjt-cts nil their nliottctl grczttcst efficiency. lcnrucd that the l-iouseholtl SCIGIIU) lhapatrtnleut WIIS moving into tho ’l‘cohuic:il School, i said to myself. “Here is where our trouble begins," But We didn't have any trouble. Everything went along just us smoothly nnd tu-i expeditiously as if itho Director of Household Scicxicc Department was u luau.

Wc huvc bI-iorc us tonight thrce graduating clascs, om- in Agricul- turc. 0m- in Motor Mechanics, and one in Iiomtr Economics. Of theso classes the smallest is in Agriculture. Ilut what it lacks iu quantity it mukcs up in quality. If you would give us 25 students a your such us those who tire get- ting I-‘irst Class Certificates to- night we would revolutionize ugri- cultural conditions in this Province In fifteen ycurs. And agricultural conditions need to be revolution- lzetl.

These graduates here of the agri- cultural classes have been wrest- ling with the agricultural problem for five full months, and so far us zictunl. tangible results arc. con- IZPPIIPti it is the bcst class we have cycl‘ haul. Thcy have been study- ing iiw- stock and field crops with "Mr. Show. Stock breeding, feeding hinting nt, housing, anti judging, rt- rltiziry cionce and practice; livo liiiiltfii tunrkcts; soils uud tnetltnds ‘or cultivation; cereal crops, woods and their eradication; fertilizers; insects and diseases affecting plants and animals nnd their erudi- outzon. These are u few of the problems that Mr. Shaw nnd his clusli have been worrying over for the [mill five months.

Mr. Show is a graduate of 0n- tni.o Agricultural College, n practi- ::Il tnzmcr, a distinguished news-

msks with thc

plllvJ correspondent nnd u good

HIYIIB-KUE. 2. l-‘rti I Besides this he has oth-

“fill. City. Lamont \I ..nnpllshtnents. He was the Cli- 4 mupon bowler in the recreation

Gcor _ Connolly",

Fifsl prize. Auto Wrap Trtr-cn! Pd by A. Home d: 00., to tint i» sf otsdml in lvicio: MIIU-llilllilfii. ivutt by Victot Cnlull.

Second prize. I-‘lvn ilniinr Gold struction from Mr. Waugh.

. o... up stairs until his record was “tutu-n by three or four students o. tn..- Motor Mechanics class.

A This clubs has also been’ taking ‘woodworking and building con- Mr.

Hooch-Presented by Palmer Wm. Waugh received his technical train-

non Co.. to the host ntltlcni

Owen.

Third Prize, ed by Palmer ‘_ but ntudeut In J-lnttf

Hoce~Preezmed by I

Al i ., " . HM)’ fluor-aPt-ll

hie-Present- .. to the Public zpdnoitlng, won <w‘\'ii,i;ilctn‘ McDon-

lnunu Prize, Five helm 001-1 _ Manure. Bruce ltowort A 00.. to tile lmdent rout:- Iu mo: I ngen .: proficiency, Ag- Instructor Mouton-at can, rim won by

'1! armour-e Int in Llvo

in lug in. the old country. and when Woodworking. won by tiambrldge

we want. expert teachers In strict- ly technical subjects we go to the old country for them. Over here In an exhibit of the woodworking departmnet. You will have nu op- nottunlty of looking It over before you Q0 away bontght.

Another subject of considerable Impomm n m. nchool n Motor Mechanics. m. Whttlock is the l hardly know what l

ouxhti

He bu the Iguot , job. and the hbrdolt job In tho‘ whole lnltltu- rlon. Evert’ your he up» from thirty to fifty student-l. noon from the country. and pnh-thtllfio

.in the garages, in the service stu-

‘lbont Mr. Whitlock. '

the total operating costs of this vocational school. These young men after they lcavehere 'ill be found working on the forms,

tions; some perhaps will go to

\ I

until It. has had an opportunity to prove ltl value." Ho also writes: - “The reports from Priuoo Ed- ward Island. Nova Scotla, Ontario

mt tumult

and British Columbia indicate oath- f ‘ y developments during the post year. and there are a number of reasons for expecting improved conditions in the other provinces during the current year."

The third graduating class be- fore us tonight is of the Household Science Department, forty in num- ber. Thsse are students from the city and. country who took the three weeks‘ Short Course in Domestic Science. Besides this one hundred and twenty took alight classes in Cookery, Millinery, Dressmaklng, or Home Nursing.

of the Farmers’ Institutes in this Province had been organized and carried on with the same degree of intelligence as the work of the Women's institutes, the classrooms of this Institution of learning would

sills. This building cannot. ac- comodate all the young women who want to take Household Science subjects and the Technical Edu- cational Grant cannot be stretched to cover the needs. Additional accommodation must be found There should be a Household Science kitchen

5D

There is a splendid Household Science kitchen in Prince of Wales

hold Science in that spends the first three month-s of the college year in teaching pen- manship and phonetics.

of every hour oi’ the school year? There are several complete sets of woodworking equipment in this town and other towns the Province .that not been used for What is this event we are celebrat- ing tonight? , Is it the death knell

vlnce‘! ince in the Dominion and every in other country in the civilized world is saying we have got to teach

doing? Dcliberately closing nailing up the doors and windows lss of the only institution in the Prov- ince that ever made any attempt

The other activities of the school; our literary and debating society, our physical drill. our nthletics. l have not time in which to refer. all these activities, the woodwork- ing, the motor mechanics, or the live stock or the cultural subjects

the United States or Western, Can- ada. Wherever they go they have

in training that will Izlve their workitmngs, important as may arm are ‘the stamp of efficiency.

with the instructors of the vnriousismgmar mmg ‘he msmmulshmg setting

of whom performed’

Now the

characteristic of this work is that they did not leuru it from books.-

When I fnstffiicy could not learn it from bookslme proper point of Vie,“ broaden. —alth0ugh we use books freely for; i They will never get ta] ‘this kind of instruction in an cle-Irphese "(my a“ are me bum, me;

rcfcrencc.

mentnry school. And they will‘ never get it in, o. three days’ short. course or a threc weeks‘ short course. A course like this menus equipment and u workshop, and discipiinc, and n little expense no, count. if it did not cost consider- uble it would not. bo worth bother- ing with. Whcrc will our young men get their lll‘ll(‘li('.8i training if this sch-sol should close its tioors‘! Just whcre they got lt bciorc this school was cstubiishcti. Thcy will

first job that offers, go to Technic- ul School nt night, nnd push their way to the front. Thut is what. young Prince Edward Islanders will do and it is a pity when they have to.

Ladies and Gentlemen: it will be n prrtty sud commentary 0n educational conditions in this prov- ince when our young men and our young women have to icnvc homc and go to the United States to com- plete thcir vocational cducutlon be- cause we cannot afford to do uny- thing for them hero. This is not t1 personal matter. nor n political infill"; it. is u DPOViYICiiIi uutl a nu- tlonni question of tho utmost lm- portuncc. The question is: whnt uro wo going to do about rocittiolr ni cducntion in this Provincc. ‘rake it seriounly, wrestle with It till we understand it or drop it. We may drop it. we may close this school, but just as snro as we do it will open. again, nnd vocational education will be reestablished Just as soon as we get a clearer vision of the educational needs of the province. You may close the school. and sell the equipment, or destroy It. or give it. away nnd our work the past four years will seem as so much wasted energy. Not so. "it will be as the seed cast. upon the water which will return to us after i. few days."

The whole difficulty about Tech- nical Education in this province is that it is a new thing and it is not understood. Tho Federal Direct- or of Technical Education in his last annual report wtftee u; foi- lows: '

"Vocational education In Can- ada is a new development which has not yet attained definite form and which in misunderstood by a large proportlont of the public and by many educatioulots. Very few ,eopie have any. clear idea of the limo. organisation or methods of the schools receiving grant: under the Technical Education Act. ' "One of the groatont obstacles to the dovelo meat of vocational edu- oltion In shall. is the Indiffer- ence of the public and the failure 0ft the. educational enfllorltloo to

ciao: understand-

by Parker

work on can, tractors. coil-gal

glues, betonlng to the Depot-tine t of Agriculture and of Public Workl, con In all 1M0: of dlnolutlou and decay. and In the Sprint he turns out than came can and tractors pith k knock nut - run without». a ti! emulate of about

8.000 separate

t.

‘dart... w"

than alum completely mull 4 too b

V0 Bjflmhl

o what they. are trvlni to ‘a tuuenmtu dive o no. mo». ,.muton. u should‘ Ilwln horned: mun aim vim-

tlonslogtftcofloabluln. ‘our "I!" IMM- ' . mill! be Mlfillfilwjlfdfr" . 1301p!!!-

cnoe- -. . $1M t forth the N"

of m; -”‘"

‘ ill

igo to the llnitctl Stntcs, ltlkc the]

" lififli" MM

wipe-av»

do I consider the most important, I would answer. none of these

of paramount Importance. It is the together, the country blending with the city, the discuss- ing of problems in common. getting

tit

W ing thc vision, extending the mont- horizon—chnracter bullding-- w essential, the fundamental things in any system of education whether vocational or cultural.

Prowse Bros, Hats.

smooth as velvet. Whites

to solve the problem of vocational SETS to clear at $1.50.

education intelligently. l1ros., l.td.

l; you ask me which o; lowest prices. A. Horne

SHOP from Helium's Catalog

oI-utmntons or THE crrv. zsoe-s-za-u

LADIES’ WHITE COTTON PRIN- CESS SLIIPS. ISpeclal 90 cents. Prowse Bros.. Ltd.

2209-3-29-11

. POTATOES WANTED-Highest. market prices paidr-Cutcllffe 6i: Cutcliffe. Hunter River. 3i

ICE CREAM, three flavors and

This is work of the greatest im- 2317-3-29-1i porta-nce and work that is thor- _-_- oughly understood. ll’ the work w; CALL ATTENT-IION in this

issue to advertisement d! iDanmsed Tin Plate to be sold

by tender. 2311.329 stue»2i

oun- MEDIUM AND LOW PRIO-

ED HAT-S are todny be crowded to the window- mm. quamy and

Ltd.

A FEW t5.» ‘sueos mm mo stoves. PM“ “d cvlvm- viuce-wide reputation for good anal-

also incomparable price. Prowse Bros" 2306 3-29-1i

l 1.00.1’ ws Brosnhid- “H's “o e zzoe-a-zsu

BROOKFIELD SERVICES for in every Public gummy March School in this city, and in every M“, Hartsville 3 p-m. Hunter Rlv- and NHL J_ I), Stewart, who 1.5 cou- lncorporated town in the Province. or 7 m“, Al] are cordially invited. (mum; he.- law studies M Dulhous.

30-—l3rookfield l1

THE LADIES AID of the P. E. (mm Isatufdfly Night, College, but the Director of House- [_ I-[ugpilal will hold a tea ut-Qpflfln Institution Hotel ’l‘tiesday, April 1st.—1l.

ODD LINES IN l-Aoiis’ m-QU" M. Muloneha Suuduy evening course Why sES, black white nnd colors. Spec o; heme“ Bgfmans a; 5g, Peter's can't that equipment be made use htl value. 31-50- ‘Prllwse Bma- Lm- Cathedral are: Doubt, Temptation.

2209-3-29-1i

HIGHFIELD SERVICES in Pres- of bytoriun Church Sunday, lilarch 30 have n1 3 p.111. llir. Jnrdino will preach Cum-L yesterday argemoon, Mm, years. Sunday School at 2 p.m.

BRADALBANEP‘ Th9 servic" ‘Prohibition inspector ‘Coyle otf hav» of vocational education in this Pro- tiext Sunday are in Granville at l1 mg liquor in he.- r gsegglgn pnlnw When every other prov- a. m., iu Ilradalbaue nt 2 p. m. and m“): she was “n85 $290’ m- three