AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29102, 14 January 1960, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM

Establishment At Lincoln

To assist the formation of an agricultural museum, the board of governors of Canterbury Agricultural College decided that £5O be put aside each year. The college had agreed, as a policy matter, to foster the museum, said the director (Dr. M. M. Burns). The college had the support of the National Historical Places Trust. With Mr G. G. Lindsay (of the college’s machinery department), he had attended a traction engine rally and farm machinery display, said Dr. Burns. He had already written to the owners of the plant “asking them to keep us in mind.” “Mr Lindsay suggests we begin now building up a collection of photographs and documents,” he said. At farm machinery demonstrations, thousands watched a threshing mill threshing from the stack, said Dr. Burns. He admitted that he had spent one hour watching the mill. “A number of elderly persons have distinctively valuable recollections and Mr Lindsay wishes to take tape recordings from persons like Sir Walter Mulholland and others so that their recollections can be preserved,” said Dr Burns. This was a golden opportunity to preserve for all time some of the history of farming activity, said Mr N. G. Pickering, M.P.