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master or mistress whose business it is to be acquainted with the labour market— 
professional, industrial, commercial, agricultural. Through them business houses, 
industries and all organisations concerned in providing openings for boys and girls 
would reach the most suitable candidate. It would be their business to advise pupils 
and their parents, and to interest them in the possibilities of various careers. They 
would arrange lectures and speakers on topics of vocational interest, one of which, 
of course, would be that of overseas life. 
5. Final Suggestions.—The situation suggests the need of some co-ordinating 
agency or authority to link up the work of different overseas migration societies into 
one co-operating whole. Through such an agency it would-be possible to organise 
local distributing committees whose representatives could visit systematically all the 
secondary schools inconveniently defined areas. The Oversea Settlement Department 
would be a suitable co-ordinating body, while the Local Migration Committees that 
already exist might become the distributing bodies. At present the latter are barely 
functioning owing to the depression overseas, and to the fact that they have hitherto, 
with one exception, dealt only with boys from elementary schools. If they can be 
induced to undertake a wider sphere of activity, and to concentrate on the migration 
of the secondary school boy and girl, to undertake on behalf of the Oversea Settlement 
Department the work as local representatives of the Department to the schools, they 
would find renewed interest in their mission and a valuable outlet for their activities. 
This Committee urge the Council of the British Association to consider the 
possibility of bringing the matter to the notice of the Secretary of State for Dominion 
Affairs with a view to placing the need and value of such an organisation before the 
Oversea Settlement Department for consideration. 
The Committee feel that no time should be lost in the promotion of a scheme such 
as is here outlined ; they believe it is in the interests of the country, as well as of the 
individual, that increased publicity be given to the opportunities and facilities for 
sound and promising careers overseas in order thereby to secure, when the present 
state of depression has passed, a larger response than hitherto from boys and girls 
of the right type to the call of the Empire, and to secure a fuller recognition by their 
parents of the possibilities for successful careers awaiting their sons and daughters 
in the Dominions and Dependencies overseas. 
The Committee also urge the Council to ask the Board of Education to make 
their grants towards the cost of senior scholarships, offered by local authorities, 
tenable at universities in the Dominions as well*as at universities in Britain. 
The Anglo-Canadian Committee (see page 19) have been actively engaged during 
the present year (1931) in urging this particular proposal upon County and Borough 
Education Committees. The Oversea Settlement Department has, through its 
representative, also strongly supported such a course. 
Note 1. Since this Report was drafted the Committee have been informed that the 
London Education Authority has accepted the principle in a test case, as, in response 
to an application by the Anglo-Canadian Committee on behalf of a scholar of a well- 
known London school, the Authority has awarded him a Senior County Scholarship 
of £40 per annum for a period of three years on the understanding that this award 
is to be spent on his education in Canada. 
The Anglo-Canadian Committee have further succeeded in obtaining for this lad 
a school-leaving scholarship of £50 per annum and a grant of £30 per annnm from 
the Thomas Wall Trustees for the same period. The total income of £120 will thus 
enable him to start at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, for his three years’ 
course in the Faculty of Arts this September (1931). 
The Committee earnestly hope that when suitable boys present themselves other 
Local Education Authorities will follow this lead and help boys to start their careers 
in this excellent manner. 
Note 2. It has been further reported that, as a result of the favourable 
impression received by headmistresses during their visit to Canada this year (1931), 
a scholarship of £100 is to be offered for three years in succession, to enable a 
suitable girl to take a university course in the Dominion. 
