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comprised of medical men, representatives of the Chambers 

 of Manufacture and Trades and Labour Councils, and 

 experts in education. Each applicant for training was 

 brought before either a full committee, or a sub-committee 

 thereof, and had his case fully investigated. As the num- 

 ber of applications increased very largely after the ending 

 of the war, and especially so after the introduction of the 

 regulation making the " under 20 enlistment class" eligible 

 for training, the work became quite beyond the powers of 

 voluntary committees. At any rate, this was so in the 

 States with the larger populations. The Director of Voca- 

 tional Training had over two year's experience as chairman 

 of one of these sub-committees in one of the States, and 

 had assisted in the selection of callings for many hundreds 

 of injured returned men. The experience thus gained 

 in connection with the special problem of selecting call- 

 ings for the returned men, together with an experience of 

 over 25 years in technical education and with the callings 

 and industries of the country, enabled him, when re-organ- 

 ising the scheme, to systematise the arrangements for 

 carrying out quickly the work of selecting callings for the 

 large number of applicants which had to be dealt with 

 daily. The system of selecting the men for callings involved 

 the appointment of a special Selection Officer for each 

 State. This officer had to be a man with a wide knowledge 

 of the industries of his State, he had to understand the 

 general conditions of work in the many callings carried on 

 in these industries, and it was necessary that he should 

 understand the industrial laws. Fortunately in making 

 the appointments it was possible to obtain the services of 

 men who had the kind of knowledge described. It was also 

 possible, in each case, to appoint a man who had been a 

 member of a Vocational Training Committee. Thus, in 

 each case, was brought into use an experience of great 

 value. For the use of and with the concurrence of these 



