A CHAIR OF COMMERCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 18 February 1911, Page 5

A CHAIR OF COMMERCE.

A deputation of the Chambers of Com-i merce and Manufactures and of commercial men generally : waited bn';the.»NeiTSouth' Wales Minister for Instruction (Mr, fie "by), anil urged tho -- need 'of more' attention to commercial* and particularly the establish- . .| meut of a. Chair of« Commerce- at Sydneyj University.: It :was/pointed ! out' tha!; the-. .j cost of the Chair of Commerce'was esa-- 1 j mated at over. a; year, _but as it t was estimated that JCBOO-or >£vOO would , come back in fees, the amount required. to'establish tho chair woulu be-about 1 ( ii 2500... , .. ! 1 Mr. Beeby expressedins sympathy with! tho needs of 'higher commercial..educa-1 : tion. He stated that the question of ay commercial high school was. well 111 hand, - and he' hoped they would soon have-a.\. j well-equipped school which would bo the-} t nursery of the future captains of induv try. The next step would, be to enabls pupils from this high,school,to pa:s on ta higher courses, as was. now done; in countries that had paid special attention .! ; to this branch of education. As. tho 1 University seemed : to bo prepared to es- • j tablish the ' Classof Commerce if the | money was found—he mightstate that, it r } was the Government's intention to. maie }-! a considerable increase; in,, the money , -j available ' for educational ' purposes-he .- j hoped, provided certain matters of ad- ) iustment with the University .could •b« J arranged, that the jioxt Estimates would s provide the University 'with .sufficient < monev to establish this chair as well as 1 that :'of applied chemistry. - (Applau=e ) j There was one important point.-in.con- i nection with commercial edncaticm, and ] thai was the relation of the apprenticeship period to .the three. years .course , in the Technical ■ College. He thought that this'course should count for a cor- ) Tospondins: period off" the apprenticeship, 1 period, at least two and a half years, but a difficulty ; had arisen in the matter, • and he would like the views of. manufac- ; j turers'and commercial men upon it. . |