Third Year.

Drawing—Making working dress from models and sketches, skech the different joints used in woods making dimension aketches from jects and diagrams.

Timbers—Names and uses of common bers used, growth, age, and [unclear: pa] fell timbers; natural and [unclear: ca] methods of seasoning, cutting up economy and beauty; decay of time and common modes of preservation.

There are four instructors of my training, whose influence is already of felt in some of the other districts beyond limits of Sydney, and it is evident that South Wales through its Technical [unclear: ca] will soon be able to provide facilities by instruction and training of all the [unclear: pa] the highest class at the public school.

The same facilities are not yet and to the children in Victoria, but the [unclear: pa] Men's College is doing some excellent of and its influence is being felt in a places. Every facility is given to [unclear: th] in the country to attend the college of the price of a return fare on the [unclear: ca] being one shilling within twenty-five of Melbourne, one shilling and [unclear: a] the distance is not more than [unclear: fa] miles, and two shillings if within miles. In Sydney free passes are [unclear: pa] students on the certificate of the direct the college and every encourages given to young men and women to of them to become better acquainted [unclear: a] manipulative and artistic process of trade or profession in which they and engaged.

I went through each college during progress of the classes and it was [unclear: pa] saw the greatest hope and [unclear: pro] education of Australia. To see year spending their time in the pursuit it art or science which will make then [unclear: the] page 13 fulfil their duties as men and citizens, and young women gaining experience and knowledge of things which will help them to become better women and housewives, is a picture sufficient to bring up bright visions of the future.

My only regret is that we in New Zealand have not yet come to realise the great fact that technical education is a reality and a power for good. For many years I have presched "adaptive education" for the schools, with kindergarten training for the young ones. What I have seen in Austrlia, though so briefly outlined here, has shown me that the modern school of to-day must teach the children to anticipate to-morrow The dead past must give place to the needful present, and subjects now taught in the schools of secondary importance must be replaced by training of a practical and anticipatory kind. How this can be done it is not necessary to point out here, but that it can be done and ought to be done I am fully convinced. This conviction is the outcome of my visit to the Technical Colleges which are doing such great work for the future of Melbourne and Sydney.