MASSEY COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 18

MASSEY COLLEGE.

DIPLOMA COURSE APPROVED.

STUDENTS MUST PASS

EXAMINATIONS

NO LOWERING OF STANDARD,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, this day,

At a conference of representatives of the Massey Agricultural College the Xew Zealand Dairy Managers' Associa-

tion, it was agreed:—

1. That a 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 must pass the exams 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 a dairy factory, the work including at least one year as either factory manager or first assistant, to sit for. examination after two years' instruction at Massey College of about four weeks each year in the case of factory managers and about six weeks each year for first assistants; (b) that a committee, consisting of two representatives of the college council and two of the Factory Managers' 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 the Massey College and no application to be accepted later than December 31, 1929; (c) that this concession remain in force only during 1930, 1931 and 1932.

4. That the coliege council be recommended to ask the National Dairy Association and the South Island Dairy Association to bring this concession to the notice of all factory directors in the Dominion, with a 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 younger men to attend the full diploma course at the Massey Agricultural College.