FARMING EDUCATION
Science and Practice TEACHING OF BOYS Masterton, July 25. That the Education Department did not intend to enforce the Qualifications of two years post-primary education for can didates for admission to the Penrose Farming School was revealed in a letter from the Minister of Education at a meeting of the Wairarapa Progress League to-day. In reply to a letter recently forwarded to the Deparement asking for information on the matter, the Minister pointed out that the proposal was to provide at Penrose, not only practical instruction m farming, but also scientific instruction in classroom and laboratory. In order to profit fully from this latter instruction, candidates for instruction really required two years’ post primary education, especially in science. The Minister suggested that the Wairarapa boys, who were unable to attend the secondary schools, could obtain instruction in general education and in elementary farming through the department’s correspondence courses.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 10
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