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Technical
P-Ng Girls
From a Port Moresby Correspondent Full time technical and home science courses for P-NG girls will start for the first time this year.
KAVARI Girls’ School, near Port Moresby, will become a girls’ technical school, and girls’ junior technical schools will be established in other Territory centres.
A nucleus of homecraft teachers will be trained at the Kavari School this year to help staff the other technical schools as they are estab lished.
The P-NG Chief of Technical Education, Mr. K. A. Lamacraft, said in Port Moresby in December that technical training for girls will help hasten improvements in general living standards in the villages.
The new syllabus in Port Moresby in 1963 would include two years’ training in academic, commercial and homecraft subjects. This would help girls seeking jobs as dressmakers, hostel supervisors, housekeepers, typists and clerks.
New Boys’ School
It was also announced in Port Moresby in December that 36 acres had been set aside at Bulolo for a junior technical school for boys, building of which would commence in 1963. Bulolo is one of the most im portant industrial centres in P-NG.
The new school will have 22 students to start with, rising to 200.