Members will realize that I am very interested in education, having held the portfolio of Minister for Education for 11 years. I am pleased indeed to see the progress of education since I vacated office and that the prospects for further progress are so bright. During my absence from this House the late Director of Education, Dr Chas Fenner, resigned on account of ill-health. I should like to say how greatly I appreciated him as Director of Education. He possessed outstanding educational qualifications. He had great foresight and was a man of ideals, and from the day he came from Victoria, 20 or 25 years ago to inaugurate technical education in South Australia, to the day of his resignation, he gave himself unreservedly to the cause of education. Dr Fenner was respected by the Ministers and Directors of Education in other States because of his knowledge and character. When I attended interstate meetings of Directors and Ministers I observed that they looked to him for guidance and I think that it is only fair that I should pay tribute to him for the work he has rendered to education for so many years. His foresight in the matter of technical education proved to be of inestimable value to this State when war broke out, because, but for the technical schools and the men trained in those subjects, we would have been in a sorry state. I do not suggest that he alone did all this. He was ably seconded by his superintendents and inspectors and by the great majority of teachers, most of whom give their services without stint for the welfare of the boys and girls.