Some Practical
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Help in Vila
About 40 students of a Noumea school which gives special ad vanced training in the trades, received some really practical experience in January.
The students, mainly car penters and masons, were dent off to Vila to help in the big job of reconstructing the town after the damage caused by the two cyclones which struck in December.
The pupils took all their own tools, cooking and sleeping gear , and were under the direction of two teachers.
The school is a trades school mostly attended by natives in which special accelerated courses in the trades are given by specialised instructors from France.
The school has the backing of New Caledonian industry and in only a few years it has rendered first-class service to the labour market.