PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



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allotted to it as its share in the absorption of the total 

 number to be trained. 



Table I. — Vocational Training . 

















No. to be 



Calling-. 



N.S.W. 



Vict 



Qland. 



S A. 



W.A. 



Tas 



trained 

 (from 



1/4/19. 



Professional ... 



305 



2 



155 



50 



45 



20 



785 



Engineering Trades 



870 



680 



434 



1?0 



190 



85 



2,389 



Building Trades 



2,135 



1,450 



386 



370 



350 



225 



4,916 



Manufacturing and 

















General 



1,130 



810 



461 



490 



350 



80 



3,321 



State Departments 



1,000 



435 



327 



160 



150 



70 



2,142 



Applied Art .. 



225 



205 



77 



60 



45 



20 



632 



Commercial ... 



300 



260 



250 



35 



55 



25 



925 





5,965 



4,050 



2,090 



1,295 



1,185 



525 



15,110 



Note A. — The numbers as shown for the State Departments include the 

 proportion allotted to each of the different groups of callings. 



Note B. — The figures given above are exclusive of those who were 

 trained to take up Pastoral and Agricultural pursuits. Men desiring to 

 go on the land were given special courses of training by the Lands 

 Departments of the various States. 



The subdivision of State numbers into parts for the groups 

 of callings, and the further subdivision of each group into 

 callings within it, was an estimate based upon whatever 

 statistics were available, and upon a general knowledge of 

 the relative proportions of workers in the groups. Unfor- 

 tunately no exact information was obtainable. The sta- 

 tistics available at the time made no distinction in any 

 calling between the skilled and unskilled. For example, it 

 did not appear possible to distinguish between mechanics 

 and labourers in the total given in any statistics of the 

 Engineering Group of trades. If it were possible to know 

 exactly how many journeymen mechanics were employed 

 in the engineering and other groups of callings, the matter 

 of settling the proportion, not only for the groups but also 

 for the different trades in each group, would have com- 

 menced from a sound basis. The only difficulties would 

 then have been the making of the necessary adjustments 



B— May 4, 1921. 



