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Nor does the tale stop here. Through the good
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offices of Mr. Carter the firm's Far Eastern Representative,
Messrs. Crossley Bros., Ltd., have already placed at our
disposal two student-apprenticeships in their works of
Openshaw, Manchester.
For one of these apprenticeships we
have got just the man and he is ready to start at any
moment.
Shippers' Assistance.
Nor is any difficulty in securing a passage for
this would-be apprentice anticipated, for Messrs. Alfred
Holt, in August last, wrote to us quite spontaneously and
placed at our disposal two free passages a year to be
granted to Engineering graduates, these passages being over
and above the two passages previously granted by that firm
jointly with Messrs. John Swire and Sons.
Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co. went further in their
constructive help. At their suggestion and with the
approval of this University's Council, the Liverpool China
Society of which Professor Roxby is the promoter is calling
into being a committee on which practical engineering
employers throughout Britain will sit and the first duty
of this committee will be to semure, either ad hoc or for
general purposes offers of apprenticeships which will be
forward ed with all details of conditions and terms to this
University. The second duty of the committee will be to
maintain contact with apprentices already placed and to
arrange visits or short-term attachments to other works,
should such visits or attachments be considered desirable.
This is perhaps the most encouraging thing that
has ever happened to the University and this my testimony
of the gratitude not only to the University, but also of
the