XXXVI. S. H. BARRACLOUGH. 



Lately, it is true, we have in this State — and we are to 

 be congratulated on doing so — taken what may prove to be 

 the first step in this direction by establishing the office of 

 Director of Technical Education, and appointing thereto a 

 man admirably fitted to reorganise and supervise such a 

 system, but this is only the beginning. To instal and main- 

 tain the system will cost large sums of money, much larger 

 than anything that has hitherto been provided. The great 

 point which everyone interested in the matter should 

 endeavour to make is that such expenditure should not be 

 grudgingly allowed as if in deference to the clamour of a 

 section of the community, but that it ought to be entered 

 into with the whole hearted support of every enlightened 

 citizen who desires that this people should gain and keep 

 its rightful place in the community of nations. 



To argue that the country cannot afford the expenditure 

 necessary for such training, or to express doubts as to the 

 ultimate result of such training, is as irrational as for a 

 farmer to affirm that he cannot afford the wheat with which 

 to sow his land, and has not the patience to wait for the 

 crop. 



TYPES OF LABOUR. 



In order to give precision to my concluding remarks it 

 will be sufficiently satisfactory to divide the workers of 

 the community into three clearly recognisable, although 

 not sharply defined types, viz.: — 



(a) The artisan type, merging gradually from the practi- 



cally unskilled labourer through various types of 

 skilled workers to 



(b) The foreman type with opportunities and occasions 



for advancing to 



(c) The professional and scientific type, 



and this division holds satisfactorily both as regards the 

 primary producers in the great primary industries, and the 

 secondary or manufacturing industries. 



