30 JAMES NANGLE. 



schools reach the limit of their powers in what is now being 

 done. To secure further direction, help must be obtained 

 from the industrial side. That is to say, in deciding the 

 important question of what a child should select as a 

 career, the industrial world must join with the educational, 

 and, between the two, provide children with the help and 

 direction needed. Or, putting the matter more plainly, a 

 child when about to choose a career, should have, not only 

 the help of his teacher who will advise him in the light of 

 his attainments, tastes and aptitude discovered during his 

 school life, but also the help and advice of those who 

 know the callings and exactly what is required to carry 

 on successfully. 



It ought to be easier for a man in the early portion of 

 adult life to decide what calling he could successfully 

 follow than if he were still a child, because he has reached 

 an age of greater discernment, and has had some experience 

 of the world, but it is quite safe to say that, if the returned 

 soldiers had been left to enter into training without expert 

 advice, there would have been an enormous number of 

 misfits and failures. The system of investigation adopted, 

 simple as it was, resulted in the men being directed into 

 careers in which, in view of their natural qualifications, 

 they were best fitted to succeed. With children, the need 

 is surely greater, and possibly the example set in dealing 

 with the returned soldiers, and the results from the experi- 

 ment, may be useful in establishing some system to help 

 them. It appears to be likely that the Board of Trade in 

 this State will establish some machinery to work in con- 

 junction with the Education Department in directing the 

 boys and girls who leave school each year into suitable 

 occupations. It is to be hoped for the sake of the workers 

 in the industries in the future, and in the interest of the 

 prosperity of the country, that the Board of Trade will be 

 able to do something in this direction. 



