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 admitted to the secondary schools who have obtained a qualifying certificate. Every precaution has been taken to render the technical education of the colony as efficient as possible. Conferences, attended by both employers and workpeople, discussed and drew up a course of instruction. Trades schools were established that should lead up to the technical colleges, and by a wise provision, without which the whole fabric of technical education is rendered nugatory, an "entrance qualification" for the trades schools was made compulsory. In some trades, by arrangement with the employers, apprentices attend a trades school during working hours. Every precaution is taken that the children in scattered, outlying districts shall not elude the benefits the state provides. Wherever central schools are possible, children are taken to them free by coach, or in the coastal districts by launch. "Bush" children have "Provisional" or "Half-time" schools,[A] provided for them. "Caravan" schools visit scattered families. "Flying Camp" schools accompany railway construction.

It is claimed that New South Wales exhibits the most perfect existing system of centralised educational administration. All state education

[Footnote A: In the "Half-time" school the teacher divides his time between two centres.]