FARM TRAINING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 301, 20 December 1943, Page 2

FARM TRAINING

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

THE AUCKLAND PROPOSAL

A further report regarding the proposed junior agricultural college for Auckland was laid before the monthly meeting of the Auckland provincial executive of the New Zealand £ armers' Union. A report of a meeting of the general committee representing interested organisations, stated that at a meeting the belief was expressed that it would be easily possible to obtain a minimum of 250 pupils for the school. Mr. G. J. Park, principal of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, stated that the Minister of Education, Mr. Mason, had expres eo d interest m the movement. It also was reported that the Auckland Education Board had appointed a prSp C o°sT lttee t0 COnsider the

renort 3 Mr at A m n a PP end ed to the lepoit, Mi. a. Briscoe Moore a mpm bei of the Farmers' Union provincial executive, a vice-nrpsXnt * 1 Dominion body, and a holder' of ho diploma of the Canterbury w/th th i 8 ex P re ssed agreement reached 0 bv n tho IVe can ? lusi ons so far sfdered that ™ mmi "ee. He conPtae "on'fte" feT'" 100.000 men' in one" caMcltv" 1 ?.? Had stated throwing toV'r„ Park mentv decision pftM i^u? a „'; S ' """ "> 'he IntS land and Mount AllW n Auck " Schools. it sL',l' Grammar funds would kJP •, at sufficient of two or two and a haK°n consist miles. 3 iadlUs of 20