Ambitious Bsip
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Native
Training Plan
A STEP towards meeting the widespread demand for native school teachers, artisans and clerical workers in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate has been taken as the result of a grant under the Colonial Development and Welfare Scheme.
A vocational training college is to be erected at a site adjoining the Kukum airfield, six miles from the capital, Honiara.
f ll , wll cost nearly £24,000, will be of steel and cement, and the Gov eminent Architect’s design shows a central two-storey block with three classrooms and amenities on the ground floor, dormitories above.
Wings from the central block will bouse the technical classrooms, library, dining hall, kitchen, etc.
Two-year courses for teachers, beTb f fi W 0 a , nd carpenters will fi S f ai j n: later ’ other classes will be introduced in metal work, electricity, radio operation, etc.
Plans of the training college and further details of this BSIP developm * ent a PP ear in the January issue of the spc Quarterly Bullet \ n