8 Technical Instruction in Belfast: 



Mr. S. F. Milligan briefly alluded to the efforts made on behalf 

 of technical education before the introduction of the municipal 

 scheme, and said that many more names could be added to Sir 

 William Q. Ewart's list, including that of Mr. William Gray. He 

 also pointed to the warm interest taken in the subject by Sir 

 James Henderson. 



Mr. Horner said the work done by the late Sir James Mus- 

 grave and others in the old technical school should not be 

 forgotten. As to primary education, unless something was done 

 to free the primary schools from all sectarian control, Mr. Forth 

 could not possibly get into his Institute the class of scholars that 

 he wanted. 



Dr. Sheldon made some remarks regarding the correlation of 

 primary with secondary schools. Referring to the Trade Pre- 

 paratory School, as a ratepayer he objected to maintenance 

 scholarships being provided for other than the clever children of 

 indigent parents. He did not think public money should be 

 provided to keep the child of a man whose salary was, perhaps, 

 much higher than that of the people who paid rates. Mainten- 

 ance scholarships ought to be given only in cases where the 

 father's salary was decidedly low and the child's talents decidedly 

 high. From personal knowledge he could say that the training 

 given in the Municipal School of Art was highly satisfactory. 



The Chairman said, before calling upon Mr. Forth to reply, he 

 would like to refer very briefly to one or two points which had 

 been raised in that discussion. In the first place he certainly 

 thought they ought to congratulate Principal Forth very cordially 

 on the great success which had attended his work in Belfast, and 

 he (Professor Symington) thought that success had been well 

 deserved. Mr. Forth had certainly worked very hard to instil 

 into the minds of a somewhat apathetic public the importance of 

 technical education, and if that Institute did not ultimately turn 

 out a great success, it certainly would not be the fault of Mr. 

 Forth. He was very pleased to hear from Mr. Forth that he 

 attached very great importance, not merely to having a very fine 



