AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17808, 6 July 1923, Page 8

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

! AN AUCKLAND P&o*(fe|j|| LAND AND PROFESSOR WUq§']l k s?srni ro "'rax f;aa&."s » Chair of Agriculture « J| W discussed at & rawing d % jJ5$ M land Agricultural Education €ka2J| teo yesterday. Thf Hon. jZS ] 1 Professor A. P. W. J»j I J. Boddio wero prvscnt as % sss&hJll 1 | mittee from tho AuckJaad 1 College Council. ™| A letter was received frosa 4a» *w If? 1 Minister scatit.g that tW «6was(j« If, application for Ch> acre* a bat » jgf Orakei would receiv e&reM W tion. g[i Mr £. D. MeKiauan, via jfttw&i; $? stated that Orakei v.bs a eksjJ, JtijgSg, (V place for exEeriinental .sad ne*sj2[ <■ work in agriculture. tee had interviewed ;&«. B«a, Jtaga! JMyers and Mr A. £. Bankhart, >Jjj£J }%' for tho Logins <m&t, had expressed thtiuwruf* a fcejSkJP sympathy with the committee. Tr.c "m-tces huA *s&& I'f that they would shortly fee i,, a defmite stafitAVt as io Logan Campbell b» que»t ursxafej $$ |9 ft 1 - mediately avail ible for ih» mtggfrffi, ment of a Chair tf AssrwaSJiJafc %■ jS Auckland Vniven-itv Oa#g«, yFtfy Mr Fovrlds said the CoUggp l &^ , f** hoped that immediate s4«p» awrZgk; taken to establish a Chair d Jtgu.gr; ture in Auckland. Any £ek]- %&k jjjjji: be serious. Practically all £&■ hS pj| schools at present ta extsteWm§|i« at the South _ Island efforts were leing mad« ta 4555, «&&« other universities from spttsnl iH&ap'' As an illustration of vmi smt schools at Auckland. Mr JfoiMi'gSp'ffi' that the University College &ais ifc" fifi gineering students, ard tiwss solutely debarred from sstttag degree" unless they aites&d gineering school at Oasstarestf' W[h. lege. Similar conditions garding the dental scheci ju»| school at Oiago Cmreraiiy,, an attempt was -be-isp Kwafe «j Agricultural College si terbury, on the same "Rat MnfiCT on Lincoln College recea% «Wiiu«j&£ by Mr A. E. V. Bic&ayiJses. iritendent of Aprieultttre, evidently prepared m a atmosphere. Aw&b&d Sssl|Mt Eyrnpathy of tha Yriim Sir Robert Stout "hid ihai; Aueakud s&csi&C ago hav© fead a Oiair of Aggi it could hs shown that M •" ,jS financial provision cwiid hj» Aucklancl FmwFsrtT was prepared to take" iosa&ftlmMHHgP and the Ohair ci Asiri<*nltt»» *«®§|«| an estsblsshed fact hefoir® aa«r could block it. next meeting •of ik® CowscS ?(. be possible to few* ta eaTs fals&& plications for tl:e ixsii'iffls of Agriculture. They ceisM m% a South Island mooopofy si al education. H<& h»j»i Jm would bo sbte to laboratory and leettsw toss® cultural students, ewts. 1' vision were I*i«p«ar»)ry. '■j^f^® It was resolvetl tSiaa t&* wait trpoa tb» trestaea e€ ISSMIp. 4 ? John Logan t&raf&elt to cial matters. '. It was aka resdEwll ta «de , land members of Partiassefat tho committee's m?WJ& te vation of laud cr Cteit&es. °i^^ ,^