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well-equipped technical schools, only to discover that 

 a great proportion of their would-be pupils coming 

 from secondary schools of all kinds are not adequately 

 educated so as to profit by the advanced teaching of 

 the technical schools. This is a striking proof of the 

 inadequacy of the existing secondary schools. But 

 matters will not improve until the various schools of 

 this type are brought under the supervision of the local 

 authority, organised in relation to one another and to the 

 needs of the district, and assisted by public money. 

 Happily the dawn of this long-desired improvement 

 has now come. The public mind has at last be- 

 come impressed with the necessity for organising our 

 secondary education in its entirety. Throughout the 

 length and breadth of the country, large sums of money 

 are being devoted to the erection, maintenance, and 

 reorganisation of various types of secondary schools. 

 Local authorities are not only devoting funds from 

 the " Whisky Money," but they are also rating their 

 areas and borrowing money on the security of the rates 

 for these purposes. It is not easy even to estimate the 

 amount thus applied, but it certainly runs into millions 

 apart from the numerous benefactions which are now 

 everywhere forthcoming. 



