COURSE IN AGRICULTURE
■x ♦ PROPOSED BY EDUCATION BOARD,
The Auckland Education Board decided on \\ ednesday to ask the Departments approval id a scheme to hold a summer school of instruction h r instructor:-, in agriculture. At the proposed school the Board’s instructor in agriculture will he in attendance, also the Department of Agriculture inst.ructoi and special agricultural teachers in secondary schools.. This is the fust occasion on which such a scheme has been advanced, and, as ih was pointed out to Die Education Hoard, such a course would give a greater impetus to the agricultural progress of the Dominion. In Great Britain, Denmark, Canada, and flic United States these eoiiises are made a feature of by the agricultural colleges. If was suggested that. February would L: a propitious month in which, to la hi flu course if the Department’s
: auction wore IVrtlieaudng. The last week in January was mentioned as another suitable date, ami Mm Ruukmu. Government Farm was j.uscd as the location.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LI, Issue 8097, 23 September 1922, Page 3
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