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but there is no doubt that many who are crying out for technical 
education do not-seem to be aware how far their wants have been 
supplied, and that the technical education which they are asking 
for is in some instances being given and the classes are languishing 
for want of students. There appears to be a difficulty in some 
cases in bringing the student and the instructor together. There 
is no doubt whatever as to the dearth of educated men capable of 
taking the management of mines. 
There is another motion to be brought before the Legislative 
Assembly, to make provision for the creation and endowment of 
twenty scholarships, of the value of £200 per annum, each tenable 
for three years, at the Sydney University. This proposition if 
carried will I am sure be followed by satisfactory results to the 
holders ; it will still further utilize existing teaching powers at 
the University, and I trust it will be put into execution. 
As another instance of the way in which the existing agencies 
for technical education are not fully recognized, I may mention 
that very few appear to be aware that we have in our midst the 
nucleus of a very good Technological Museum, at present obscurely 
and indifferently sheltered in the old Agricultural Hall in the 
Domain. The collections would have been much more complete 
had it not been for the loss of all the first collections in the 
Garden Palace fire ; but in spite of that, the managing Committee 
have already quite sufficient material to fill a much larger build- 
ing than the present temporary and unsuitable one. Many things 
cannot be shown ot all, and the others are so overcrowded it is 
difficult for visitors to examine them properly, and moreover they 
suffer from the combined attacks of the sun, wind, and rain, for 
the iron shed in which they are housed is by no means weather- 
proof. 
A special feature in the Museum is the series of educational 
appliances, and especially of cheap and simple sets of physical, 
chemical, and other apparatus, geological and other collections, for 
the use of schools and teachers, so arranged that they can see the 
kind of apparatus to be employed and its cost. 
