25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Agricultural Colleges (From "The Dominion,” January 13, 1913.) The Prime Minister and the Hon. W. H. Herries were occupied during the forenoon yesterday receiving deputations at Hastings. Replying to the president of the chamber of commerce, who asked for the establishment of an agricultural college in Hawke’s Bay, Mr. Massey said it was the intention of the Government to establish one college in each island, and in the North Island first, because the South Island already had a valuable institution in Lincoln College. The Government had been hampered by the financial commitments of its predecessors, and was at present unable to do more than collect information as to the working of agricultural colleges in other countries. The site of the North Island college was. as yet, unchosen, and the claims of Hawke’s Bay would be fully considered, but he would not commit the Cabinet to any promise. * « * Serious rioting has occurred in connection with the strike at the American Steel Wire Company’s works at Pittsburgh. The strikers attacked the police, and in the fight several strikers were killed and many wounded. The streets became block, ed and impassable with riotous crowds, and the battle lasted for hours. There was much firing of revolvers, and the sheriffs finally retreated leaving the strikers to harangue half through the night. If there is a resumption of the rioting, it is feared the militia will be called out. The Rev. L. A. Knight was consecrated Bishop of Bunbury, at Perth, Western Australia, on Tuesday. Mr. Knight is an old boy of the Christchurch Boys’ High School, and served as a chaplain during the Great War. Before being appointed warden of St. Barnabas’s College, Adelaide, he had been vicar at Hororata, Leithfield, and Kaiapoi. and he was also rector of the St. Saviour’s Boys’ Orphanage, Tlmaru. Lieutenant-Commander G. C. Oldham, R.A.N., and Mrs. Oldham, arrived at Auckland on Wednesday by the Imperial Star from England, where Lieutenant-Commander Oldham has served for about a year in the Royal Navy. After a visit to Mrs. Oldham's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Gibson, Christchurch, they will proceed to Australia, where Lieutenant-Commander Oldham will join the Royal Australian