Vocational Guidance

Has the Fiji Education Department a Vocational Guidance division where I could send Luke and Jone?

An emphatic "yes" was the telephone operator's reply and I discovered that Mr. R. P. Hedley, the educational officer for overseas students was also in charge of Vocational Guidance. How did Mr. Hedley combine two such onerous tasks? The answer came from Mr. Hedley himself while visiting Wellington: vocational guidance took little of his time since there were hardly any jobs where children leaving school could be directed.

In view of this one finds it extremely difficult to understand the action of the Suva Rotary Club, who approached Mr. A. Taylor, former president of NZUSA. with a request that the New Zealand students "prepare a vocational guidance booklet for students leaving school in Fiji." (Fiji Times 31/12/65).