TROPICAL FARMING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1925, Page 5

TROPICAL FARMING.

VALUE OF TRAINING COLLEGE. LONDON", January 20. The Lord Mayor presided at a lunch- . eon at. the Mansion House in connection with an appeal for £100.000 to support the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. A distinguished company attended, including the High Commissioners of the Dominions and the AgentsGeneral. The Secretary of the Colonies (Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery), in giving the toast of "The College," said the college, since it, was opened in 1022, had fully justified itself. The Colonial Office recommended . that opportunities and inducements ■ should lie given to futuro agricultural . officers to obtain a full course of training at the college, while the Empire , Cotton-growing Corporation was sending , all its officers to the college lor initial training. He hoped every tropical portion of the Empire would eventually have its own agricultural university. '•. Sir Arthur Shipley, chairman of the. college, announced that, among a num- ' ber of gifts the International Health Hoard of >"ew York had offered £1000 annually for five years to establish a professorship of tropical sanitation and ; hygiene. 1'