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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 304, 17 September 1921, Page 7

Recognising the necessity for making the fullest possible provision for education in agricultural science, the New Zealand University Senate has. by a gradual process, included ■ agriculture in the list of pass subjects for the matricu- v lation, junior university scholarship, .Bachelor- of Science, and Bachelor of Arts degree examinations, says Mr. .1. P. Kalaugher. supervisor of the manual and ■technical branch of the Auckland Education Board, in a report on agriiriltural education. For the first time, he adds, candidates will be able to usa ag-riculture-as a subject for the B.A. degree pass examination in 1922. This extension has a deep significance, in that it is likely to influence many who have commenced studies in agriculture in the primary and secondary schools to continue this subject up to the degree stage. This, Mr. Kalaugher considers, should help considerably to remedy the dearth of trained teachers and experts, the absence of whom has done much Io retard Agricultural progress in New Zealand. ■Two matters of interest to solicitors.: were referred to by Mr. Justice Adams in tho Supreme Court, Auckland, states tho "Herald.” ~.In two cases that came before his notice application was made for permanent alimony. Tn both cases His Honour pointed out that the applications should have been made for "permanent maintenance.” He referred further to an occasional practice of counsel in probate matters and applications for letters of administration, in filing affidavits setting out whether the life of tho deceased was insured. Such practice was necessary, said His Honour, only in cases where the person in question was alleged to be dead, and the fact of death had yet to bo proved.

Referring to the shortage of apprentices at the annual meeting of the Auckland Employers’ Association. Mr. Albert Spencer said that in the old days par- . ents were willing to pay to have their boys taught a trade, and were glad of the opportunity. Tho modern unionist, however, had pressed for and obtained a limitation of the number of boys allowed as apprentices, together with other restrictions. As a result, many employers nowadays would not bo bothered with apprentices. Again, many parents placed' their boys- in positions where they could earn the most money when they left school, without thought of tho boys’ future, and that was perhaps ths serious cause for the scarcity of apprentices. ,