The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1909. MODERN EDUCATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2534, 22 June 1909, Page 4

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1909. MODERN EDUCATION.

A short article, headed .“Wool sorting and classing”, which is published in another column draws attention to a new development in modern education that is receiving a good deal of attention in different parts of tho Dominion. It outlines the work that is being carried out in the Hawke’s Bay district in the teaching of wool sorting and classing amongst scholars attending the technical school. This subject is of such great importance locally that we hope it will now rcceivo .careful . consideration on the part ol those concerned in the education of our youths and that, emboldened by the. satisfactory - commencement which Ins been made in Napier, wool classing w-H shortly be included in. tho in bus of the Gisborne Technical school. Anyone, who 'has a proper knowledge of the treatment of wool should receive in order to command the maximum prico in tho London market would bo amazed wero lie to pay a visit of inspection to the. different shearing sheds at shearing time. Even in Poverty

Bay it is no exaggeration to say that thousands of pounds are lost annually through the faulty manner in which tne wool output is prepared for shipment. In many cases the farmer will not take tho necessary trouble to satisfy the requirements of the prospective buyers as to cleanliness and classification; more, often he is entirely ignorant of what those requirements are. Therefore he despatches his chief source of revenue in a happy-go-lucky manner, trusting .to Providence for satisfactory returns. If his. accounts, received a few months later, indicate that he has received a penny per lb loss than what was said to he the ruling rates at the time, he blames the middlemen, the Bradford “bears,” his selling agents; anyone hut himself. The fact is that there is no produce which we ‘•en.l abroad that needs more caro ! in its preparation than does wool, for not oven such perishable objects as butter and meat will suffer more in value as tho result of carelessness. Therefore it behoves tho parents of the future farmers and pastoralists of Poverty Bay to see to it that their sons shall have tho advantage of the best scientific education that can be given in regard to tho preparation and marketing of the chief product of the district. We understand that tho local Board of Governors aro willing and anxious to provido the services of a competent instructor if reasonable indication is given by parents that his services will be fully utilised. No better equipment can be given the. potential farmer of to-day than a thorough knowledge of wcol from a scientific and practical noint of view'