TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
GREAT BRITAIN’S DISADVANTAGE (Per Press Association.).' (Per R.M.S. Souoma at Auckland.) London, Jau. G. At the asnual meeting to day of the Association of Technical Institutes tho new) president, Sir John Wolfe Barry, a well-known engineer, in his address once more drew attention to the striking lack of scientific and mental equipment in Great Britain, as compared with her two great- competitors tho United States and I Germany. He pointed out that besides I the superior natural advantages already I possesssod by the United States the advantages are enhanced by the United 1 States' boundless wealth, while tho United States aud Great Britain's other compotij tors have the additional advantage of proI tection, making homo markets safe from I foreign competition. So they could I afford to cut under the foreign markots. I Another important influence against Great | Britain was tho standardisation, which beI fore the year closed, however, would bo I adopted by all important engineering I trades in Great Britain.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 811, 28 January 1903, Page 2
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