Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Monday 18 August 1947, page 7


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Australia needs laboratories for training students, according to Chief Inspector Edward Caradus of New Zealand post primary schools.

axi. tarauus, W'Bio is alia, ireriwm to attend the Science Conference, made this point today before the Royal Commission, into the management, working and control of the MMil&nd Junction Workshops. He was requested to address the commission by Royal Commissioner A. J. Gibson. Mr. Caradus, after assuring the Commissioner that he did not wish to cause any controversy, said the New Zealand educational, set-up was totally different from that in any Australian State. Technical schools were wellequipped with tools. Eight million pounds had been spent on education in New Zealand last year. Union representative T. G. Davies told the Commissioner that employers in W.A. were very reluctant to provide equitable theoretical training for apprentices. 'This department has been starved,' he said. Workshops chief mechanical en

gineer r . ivJLHis uerneu ivii . uavi.es suggestion that the Midland Junction Workshops had not given apprentices theoretical training. He criticised the early start of night classes for students at the Perth Technical College, said that it was not in the best interest of the boys that they had to rush to clsses at 6.30 p.m. after knocking off work at 5 p.m. Superintendent of Technical Education L. W. Phillips said that attendance figures at the Perth Technical College had improved since the early start had .been instituted. This was because students preferred to finish study earlier and thus spend some time with their families and get to bed 'at a reasonable hour.'(PROCEEDING) (PROCEEDING) [Before Royal Commissioner A. J. Gibson. Mr P. C. Raynor and Mr. F. Mills for the Commissioner for Railways. Mr. T. G. Davies for unions.]