Miners and Mentors

Glenn Mclaren tells an absorbing story, dating from the school’s inception, when many of the students were studying Certificate courses in Surveying, Assaying etc, and the highest award was the Associate Diploma. Indeed, it is an inspiring story told against the gradual decline of the industry it was established to service. Without question, the goldmining industry suffered grievously from the adverse impact of the 1914-18 War manifested in a high rate of inflation during the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the all too brief revival following the 60-percent devaluation of the US dollar against gold in 1932, and the rapid erosion of these economic benefits by the demands of the Second World War.

(Extract from the forward – Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, AO. C.M.G).