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Western Australia. 



'Sly stay in Western Australia was much too short to permit 

 of any personal insight into that State's system of ag^ricultural 

 education, hut I know that a chair of Agriculture has been pro- 

 vided in the University of Western Australia, by the generosity 

 of the Chancellor, Sir Winthrop Hackett, and this to some 

 extent compensates for the fact that Western Australia differs 

 from the other Australian States in not possessing an Agricul- 

 tural College. I also gathered that, at the larger centres, boys 

 in the primary schools receive instruction in manual training, 

 and girls in cookery and domestic economy, and that, wherever 

 liossible, the practice of agriculture is inculcated by means of 

 school gardens. The schools oi ^^^estern Australia do not con- 

 fine themselves to the ordinary curriculum, but make a point 

 of imparting knowledge of such subjects as carpentrv. horti- 

 culture, and others whicli tend to ht tlie children to become 

 useful settlers on the land. 



South Australia. 



Rose7vorfhy College. 



In South Australia, the University of Adelaide, in con- 

 junction with the Government Agricultural College, makes pro- 

 vision for a course whereby students are enabled to obtain the 

 degree of B.Sc. in Agriculture. Part of this course is taken 

 at the University, and ]:)art at the Agricultural College. Thi> 

 college, situated at Roseworth\-. is affiliated to the University, 

 and thus affords to students an alternative to the Technical 

 School at Perth. Western Australia, which is likewise affiliated 

 to the South Australian University of .\delaide. Tlie teaching 

 at Roseworthy in agriculture, \iticulture, etc.. is accepted as 

 part of the University course for B.Sc. in Agriculture ; and so. 

 too. the teaching at Perth in chemistry, physics, mathematics, 

 etc., is accepted as part of the Adelaide University course for 

 the ordinary B.Sc. degree. By co-operation (^f the University 

 and the Forest Department, arrangements exist for the success- 

 ful training of foresters. The Forest Department issues a pro- 

 spectus of courses of training, and it is possible to obtain the 

 imiversity degree of B.Sc. in the subject of Forestry. 



It was my privilege thoroughly to inspect not onh- the 

 actual University buildinars at Adelaide, with their e(|uipment. 

 but also those of the Covernment Agricultural College at Rose- 

 worthy. The Roseworthy College, which was founded in 1883 

 for the twofold purpose of training young men in the practice 

 of agriculture, horticulttire and viticulture, and of condticting 

 experiments with a \ie\v to the advancement of rural industrie.s 

 in South Australia, is situated on a wide level plain, thirty 

 miles north of Adelaide, and about eight miles from Gawler, 

 a small South Australian engineering town. The college lands 

 extend over some 2,000 acres. The writer visited this institu- 

 tion in company witli about 20 other niMTiters of the British 



