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mittee next proceeded to make plans for establishing a range of 

 evening classes. The buildings occupied by the institutions which 

 have been merged in the Corporation Scheme were utilized, and 

 other temporary premises were secured in various parts of the city, 

 ten buildings being provided in all. Early in September of the 

 year 1901 the first prospectus of the Municipal Technical 

 Institute was issued, and shortly afterwards the classes were 

 opened. Before the end of the first session over 3,000 individual 

 students had enrolled. The programme of instruction at 

 present in operation in the Institute includes a day division 

 and an evening division, and the classes are grouped in a 

 preparatory section and introductory section, and into the depart- 

 ments of mathematics, mechanical engineering, naval archi- 

 tecture, physics and electrical engineering, the building and 

 furnishing trades, textile industries, pure and applied chemistry, 

 natural science, commerce, the printing trades, miscellaneous 

 trades and industries, women's work (a department of import- 

 ance), and the school of art; whilst there is a day trade prepara- 

 tory school and a day technical course, as well as provision for 

 physical training. The success of the trade preparatory school 

 can be judged from the fact that the demand from employers for 

 boys trained in this school is much in excess of the number of 

 boys available annually, and greatly to the regret of the Institute 

 authorities many excellent situations which are offered cannot be 

 filled. At the present time, although there were still five months 

 of the present session to run, the number of individual students 

 enrolled is 5,913, and it is important to note that these are not 

 all children, but persons of ages ranging from fourteen years to 

 sixty years. When the Corporation adopted the Technical 

 Instruction Act it possessed neither buildings nor equipment. 

 To-day it owns a building worth ;^iio,oco, that building contain- 

 ing equipment valued at ^^50,000 or a property whose total value 

 is ;^i 60,000 The technical instruction scheme is exercising a 

 very marked effect on other branches of education. It is, for 

 example, reacting on the national and secondary schools in the 



