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European to superintend “ elementary courses in 
practical mathematics, mechanics and prime motors, 
drawing and plans, chemistry, physics, electricity, 
sanitation and hygiene, surveying.” 
In 1918 a Commission on Technical and Industrial 
Education in the Federated Malay States recom- 
mended the provision of Trade Schools at which 
instruction should be in Malay, the provision of a 
Technical School to give training in English, and 
the provision of an Agricultural School to train 
assistants for the Agricultural Department and for 
estates. It emphasized the necessity of improving 
the pay of technical posts to render them as attrac- 
tive as the clerical service. It urged the need to 
make hand and eye training compulsory in all 
standards of the English schools. A minority 
Report by an experienced headmaster insisted, 
however, that there was neither public taste nor 
demand as yet for technical or industrial education 
proper. 
The above summaries of the conclusions of three 
committees are evidence that the problem of 
technical education has not been overlooked by 
the Government of the Straits Settlements or the 
Government of the Federated Malay States, though 
in the face of those conclusions it is not surprising 
that so far little has been done to develop this 
branch. 
In the Colony in 1902 the Survey Office trained 
youths to become Government surveyors only. 
There were also industrial scholarships for which 
there was so little competition that they were given 
to any boy, chiefly Eurasians, for the asking: the 
holders were apprenticed to firms and received 
