AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

. a THE CLAIMS OF AUCKLAND. £ MINISTER URGES ACTION. | o Tlie urgency for raising the status and - efficiency of agricultural education in I i Auckland province without delay, was ! * j stressed to day when the lion. C. J. | ' , I'arr, Minister of Education, met tl.e ; ' members of the Auckland Education ' I Board. In returning U-.aiitte to tl.e Mm-;* jisti-r for his appointment for the fourth , : ume as rppn?M.T.ia'i-\.e of agriculture in ' I the <"<niti<i! ~.f tirturation, Mr Ban!:s , * stated that thore. wfere at present fifteen "' Ito tuenH- boys, ivbn da.l stan- ; dards four to six. attending Rua- ; J jkura farm. Them w t re (jQu t)oys ; n the I 5«-<-ondarv departments of the" <liittri<*t <' hijTh schools and l<> ocr cent of them ! mi<r>it be expected to £O on from the I nigh «rhools i.o agrWtiira) tra;n.ns >it' kuafcimi. With |-!ofe&«.)r Macmillan ' , Brown aa the heait nf the Ofilversity . 'Senate Mie speaker felt that agriculture!, I would get more prominence than it ' had had. ; Mr Parr stated that he felt Auck- j', land α-ould do v-l) t< speeiqlla* in ijrri- ; outturn In Hi? opinion the Auckland , University .could do well to make nimnst ;mT>er|ia!« of the op- j ] por',u-,ify ?iv.- n hi; -ho trustees of the ' 1 *ir I. '.<>e:m Campbell be.-jupet of : e-20-..TOn rr.aKinj : he nin , iut:t available in! Snntemner Th« iin'VMr«"v woii'd no 'doubt see to it Mint inim university < I institution was established in this dis- , I trict. Bnr. lie «-o'.:M lik* to sve the uni ! versity here eperia! : <! e | n agriculture We ' had a preat province o f varied climate soil= which .offered a field for scientific aprririilt'iral r»sear'-h which no other province offered I', tvonld interest the counci to know that the Prisons j Department >md nr.juired lO.flOfi acres of 1 typical pumic" "ountrr a few miles frorr the further end of Tanpo, a-:<i in lfl ' months n ffang of about 30 prisono'i hud i ' done asto'indine in breriMnp that : ' country in. RpeenOy he Raw there j vonnc Errnsg and nriten hay which had ! astonished him nn<! opened" hi" erea y.9 i to t])o possibilities ot uip pitrr.rp Innd, , ! of which tr.cre trere o' acres '. lvina ir.lfi Fit |p|t thai thf University her? hat i snund claim upon the ' j''Overntnent for assistance to supple ! I ment I he rampbel' bequest !n the way !I of (rettinjr nr nericilnira! "oDccre es*ah--1 lished Wellington Had already ctnrten • and had appointed a professor in ' of the Sir Walter Unohnnan brqnost nf £10.000. The hoard would -In w<-l' to ' back up tbf ['niveristv Counefl : for an ntrricnltura! .•ollese He did not . I undervalue the importance of ♦.'ie professional schools and Auckland had claims in resrnrd to them which could not be Inn? overlooked At the came time it must b» r°nlised that Ciih'Tiet had made a cr-nerous , >T ;uit to "msri f n ' a 1 i new dentistry selinol. which hn<! ndvin • J tncres in heipij beside the medion' .srhnn',. I Rfenttiallv the medical nnrt der.tistrv r Bphnols Tnu=t come, and AucHnnH have n iinirer=itv of its own. hi>« it ' i seemed more important to him &» the I 1 moment that the province should (re* n ' Ichnir of afrriciHure <in<l far*n<> nil I worked from the T'-'-vei-sit-v Tnlloce ' ! -.villi the trained prof»=«ors. P^ortlv , : ! results br vraT ot prodvt.ion spe.rneH to . hhii more irr.nortanf. ever 'har having i I tlie professional schools in Auckland. i