. REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, ONTARIO, 1909 . arter of an inch thick is the best wood for this purpose. The desk-top shoulde protected by a sheet of stout mill board. Talks on basswood and pine. Grades VII. and VIII. or Junior anil Senior /I. The work of these grades should he taken in a properly equipped manualaining room, but where this cannot be obtained, much good and useful work can done by the provision of one or two benches. Every rural school should liavet least one bench with a set of tools. In some cases a long bench fixed to one ofie walls of the class-room will be found be


. REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, ONTARIO, 1909 . arter of an inch thick is the best wood for this purpose. The desk-top shoulde protected by a sheet of stout mill board. Talks on basswood and pine. Grades VII. and VIII. or Junior anil Senior /I. The work of these grades should he taken in a properly equipped manualaining room, but where this cannot be obtained, much good and useful work can done by the provision of one or two benches. Every rural school should liavet least one bench with a set of tools. In some cases a long bench fixed to one ofie walls of the class-room will be found best. Where no provision can be made>r a bench of any description, the knife work of the previous grade should be con-nued with much greater stress on the mechanical drawing. Use of simpler wood-orking tools, as saw, chisel, plane, rule, gauge. Exercises embodied in a com-pete useful model, and intended to give facility in the use of these tools, as lay-ig out and truing up pieces to dimensions; cutting grooves; making of 482 THE REPORT OF THE No. 1. 1909 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. 483


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