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almost every calling carried on in the Commonwealth. It 

 was realised, even in the earliest stages of the work of the 

 Department, that the courses of training ordinarily given 

 in technical schools would fail to meet the special require- 

 ments of the returned soldiers. 



Usually, the courses of instruction in the technical schools 

 in this country are given in the evenings, and, at the most, 

 require only a few hours of attendance weekly; consequently 

 they spread over lengthy periods of time. It is true that 

 in some instances day courses of trade training are avail- 

 able, but they are rare, and even then they are confined 

 to a few of the trades. The evening courses again are 

 designed, and properly so, to be supplementary to what is 

 learnt by the students at their work as apprentices or 

 journeymen during the day-time, or they fall rather short 

 of what will be valuable to those who intend the knowledge 

 to be useful in a calling. The returned soldiers had to be 

 rapidly trained to a stage of being useful to some degree in 

 the employment into which they would enter as industrial 

 trainees, with a view to completing their training. This 

 meant that they would have to have training, which, though 

 of a preliminary nature, should be rather on the practical 

 side, and, further, that the conditions of training should 

 approximate to actual working conditions. As a matter 

 of fact, it would differ only from the usual workshop con- 

 ditions in that it would be under the direction of practical 

 teachers, whose sole business would be the careful instruc- 

 tion of the men under their charge. One consequence of 

 the establishment of training conditions of this kind was 

 that full-sized articles would result, and that arrangements 

 would have to be made to dispose of them by sale. It was 

 found that no difficulty whatever was met with in selling 

 the articles manufactured in the classes. Both employers 

 and employees' representatives on the Soldiers' Industrial 

 Committees helped in securing markets for the product- 



