TEACHING AGRICULTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 169, 18 July 1924, Page 4

TEACHING AGRICULTURE.

x j! THEORY AND PRACTICE. FARM SCHOOL ASSURER (By Telegrapn.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this dafThe requirements of Victoria Colle? Council towards giving full proposals in connection with the of Agriculture was the subject of representations made to the Prime M""j|~ by members of the Council and otM" interested. Mr.| Levi (chairman of W« College Council) said a Chair had D*' founded by a gift of £20,000 by S£ Walter Buchanan, subsidised Government. The income did M". more than provide for the the professor who had been afPf 1 and, in order to set the Chair of V culture going, the3 r must have a for practical work. The Council W come to the conclusion that, *° *". stitute the Chair properly it w0 necessary to appoint an extra Iβ , for the "1926 session. They that the appointees should he y» men, who would later take de Prj[, r Professor Perm and Sir w»» Buchanan also spoke. t The Primo Minister said that, as pastoralist, he realised the value: ot t»j subject, and that New Z eal f ? qt llagging behind in agricultural P* tion. He agreed that the should be on a farm. The eubjectc not be taught to young fanners classroom. Theory and P ractl C * I(1 \a go together. Professor Perm «"" « assured that the Government w» assist him in his work. "I think we will be able to « Ret value for our money, saio Premier, "and if that is done tW« be no difficulty as far as 1 M? . cerned. While I am Finance your farm is there. If it is j able you have Weraroa, jl another in Hawke's Bay, a" 1 ÜB> Auckland." ~ . -----r