BY J. BROWNLIE HENDERSON. XIX. 
Technical Colleges there are two educational institutions 
which are entirely controlled by the Government—the 
Agricultural College at Gatton, and the School of 
Mines at Charters Towers. Both are doing good 
work, but both are sadly hampered by lack of funds. 
That briefly summarises the educational facilities pro- 
vided or subsidised by the State in Queensland, and I 
am safe in saying that none of the few private schools reach 
so high a standard as the Grammar Schools. The total 
State provision for higher education consists in three exhibi- 
tions granted every year (worth £100 a year for 3 years) 
to enable the holder to attend a Southern University. Three 
exhibitions per annum for half-a-million people! About 
14,000 children are born every year in Queensland, and 
three of them are to be fully educated! I know that 
these statements are familiar facts to nearly all present, 
but although the facts have been on several occasions put 
before the general public, the facts are not known—that is, 
the general public does not realise what a serious menace 
to Queensland is the total absence of any co-ordinated 
system of education. Will not some of our legislators 
who recognise this great danger (and I know that some of 
them do) start a campaign in favor of a complete 
educational system for Queensland. In spite of all that is 
said about politicians in general, I think there is quite 
enough patriotism in the Queensland Parliament to prevent 
the subject of education entering the sphere of party 
politics and thereby probably receiving more harm than 
good. 
A good supply of primary state schools, several 
Grammar Schools, not connected in any way with the State 
Schools, several Technical Colleges, also practically independ- 
ent, where much revision work has to be done owing to the 
students having partly forgotten their primary education, 
a School of Mines away in the North, working under the 
same lack of connection with primary and also secondary 
education, an Agricultural College, also disconnected, and 
lastly three pupils per annum sent South ! 
When will some strong man arise, and co-ordinate 
and bring into working order all these independent educa- 
tional forces. Where is the sense in spending so much money 
