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versity, of equal efficiency, the annual cost could not have been 
less than £7,000, while there would have been the initial cost of 
buildings, for lecturerooms laboratories and alsothecostof apparatus. 
and appliances, all of which existed at the University. Taking 
the University mining school in conjunction with the metallur- 
gical works proposed to be established by Government, in which 
students may obtain valuable practical knowledge under able 
supervision, it is clear that there is now no longer any necessity 
for students to leave the Colony in order to qualify themselves 
as mining engineers. 
Considering our School of Mines as the training ground for our 
future mining engineers, I think it must be conceded that the 
advantages derived by our students in studying the theory and 
practice of mining, under the special conditions and circumstances 
which are peculiar to this Colony, should render them better able 
to cope with the difficulties in mining work which present them- 
selves in New South Wales, than mining engineers trained in 
other countries where these conditions and circumstances are 
necessarily less perfectly realised. The same argument applies 
with equal force to other branches of engineering, and should 
secure a preference for Australian trained engineers for Austra- 
lian work. In regard to the nature and extent of the instruction 
undertaken by the University Mining School and at the Sydney 
_ Technical College, there need not be any overlapping, as the 
instruction provided at the Technical College, Sydney, and at 
the various mining centres is of great importance, and should 
meet the wants of those engaged in mining pursuits, and those 
who from deficiency in preliminary scientific training, means, and 
other causes, are unable to devote the time necessary to obtain a 
degree in mining engineering, and I fully concur with the report 
recently issued by the Board appointed to consider the subject in 
connection with the Department of Mines, ‘‘that special facilities 
in the shape of bursaries be provided for successful students of 
the Technical College, in order to enable them to complete their 
education by graduating in mining engineering at the University.” 
