ON EQUAL TERM.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18626, 26 February 1926, Page 14

ON EQUAL TERM.

SyVWjM AUCKLAND PROFESSOJ* M COMMISSION'S BBPOtRL i ■hi M, „, —€■ i J& (fhjm Ajsjcatjio* WJMaadpJ AUCKLAND, Febnwrj j| A strong attack on the r«tsafs ssl recent University Co;i2injs§|gs X g made by Professor A. C. P*t*r«ei an address at a meeting of shJsij of Convocation of Auckland pp2 College. At the spa time hi im the opportunity to state that ifyl+ cision to found m agricultural gggi near Alarton was a fatal mist*j»"a the point of view of «sei«tn«w. it could not be otherwise, fee &ss>■ cause, owing to the lack of support,, it was quite impossiWeTte' babiish an agricultural f«?lw| Auckland on anything Bio Mp| quata basis. This .vlartou would militate against the future success of iege of Agriculture. ? The moral sficet on agricultural i dents of mixing freely and «$ M terms with other student* „| faM vertisy was an advantage tftat - m not be overestimated. Wtai*«tf£j culture maintains a separate egss| the students almost of themselves inferior to the stofHtp tlie universities. "Thus the mm the lack of support on the part eß| community of AuoJiiajid," he saifc that our Agricultural College it & eel to inferiority in work ape} f^gm

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