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In an industrial training school with­ FURNITURE AND
out largo ociencQ departments the coot of SCHOOL likJJIPMlSNT.
furnishing and equipping the school itself
r.ecil not he high, Classroom furniture for the Technical School
Joiild be of a very simplo kind. For the drawing office specially
s;dc furniture is required and, and drawing instruments, models
yid other apparatus must be imported. Some office and general
furniture will be needed at the beginning of the re-organisation,
but this could be augmented and improved upon as the work proceeds,
The furnishing and equipment of the boarding house will bo un
expensive item, the inclusive C06t boing reckoned at about £5 10o.
per place for a boarding house of 100 students, with an additional
£4 per place cibove this number. The following table gives an
approximate estimate of expenditure on school and boarding house
equipment spread ovor two years.
1st Year (50 to 70 students attending the school)
£
Classroom and office furniture 190
Drawing instruments, models, etc. 200
Drawing office furniture 40
Hool:s, pictures, etc. 40
Boarding house furniture and equipment 350

£ 820

2nd Year (100 students attending the school)

Additional classroom and office furniture 50
Drawing instruments and rnodals 80
Hooks, pictures, etc. 20
Additional boarding house equipment 200

£ 350

The above estimates show that approximately £5000 will be
needed during the first two years to equip the Technical School
and its workshops.

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