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that these would have to come from the National Schools and 

 Secondary Schools. He drew attention to the inadequacy of 

 the training given in the Primary Schools, and offered the 

 opinion that some facilities should be provided for higher 

 primary instruction, suggesting that four or five schools might 

 be established in special districts of the City to deal with 

 children who had passed beyond the sixth standard of the 

 ordinary National School. He explained that scholarships 

 would be available, giving admission to the Day Department 

 of the Technical Institute, and stated that Free Studentships 

 admitting to the Evening Department were already in 

 operation. 



Referring to the existing Evening Department he mentioned 

 that over three thousand * tickets for evening courses of 

 instruction had been issued, and that over two thousand t 

 tickets had been issued for single lectures. 



It was shown by means of a diagram (figure 3) that the 

 students were not of immature age, as was sometimes 

 imagined, but that the proportion of those eighteen years of 

 age and over, to those under eighteen years was as five is to 

 two. 



He spoke of the fear that had been expressed that the 

 Technical Institute might prejudically affect some of the 

 existing institutions, and said that, in his opinion, this fear was 

 unfounded. He also deprecated the unnecessary duplication of 

 courses of study. He pointed out the economy resulting from 

 the co-ordination of institutions running on similar lines 

 instancing the various institutions which had been recently 

 merged in the Technical Instruction Scheme. The lecturer 

 stated that his main fear was not that overlapping would take 

 place, but that the chief difficulty would be found in filling up 

 the hiatuses in the present education system. By means of a 



* Now (April 1902) over 4,000. 

 t Now (April 1902) over 4.500. 



