MASSEY COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 39, 15 February 1929, Page 11

MASSEY COLLEGE.

DIPLOMA IN DAIRYING

STANDARD NOT LOWERED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day

A conference of representatives of the Massey Agricultural College and the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers' Association was held at the request of the association, to consider the conditions under which examinations for the diploma of associate in dairy manufacture are conducted, with particular reference to the granting of concessions to those who have had long experience in the industry* After full discussion it was agreed:—

(1) That the diploma course as set out in the college calendar be approved. (2) That the standard of the diploma should not be lowered in the granting of concessions, and that all candidates for the diploma muet pass the examinations as presented.

(3) (a) That the college council be recommended to allow candidates who have had not less than five years' experience of a comprehensive character in dairy factory work, including at least one year as either factory manager or first assistant, to sit for the examination after instruction at Massey College for about four weeks in each of two years in the case of factory managers, and about six weeks in each year for first assistants; (b) that a committee consisting of two representatives of the college council and two of the association be set up, to determine what applicants have qualified for the concession, all applications for this concession to be made to the registrar of Massey College, and that no application be accepted later than December 31, 1929; (c) that this concession remain in force only during the years 1930, 1931, and 1932.

(4) That the college council be recommended to ask the National Dairy Association to bring this concession to the notice of all factory directors in the Dominion, with the request that facilities should be afforded the men concerned to take advantage of the concession; and that the council further request the associations to urge that facilities be given to the younger men to attend the full diploma course at Massey Agricultural College.