SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 9

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE

COLLEGE COUNCIL'S OPINIONS.

At: its meeting last evening the Victoria College Council adopted-, the «re--1 commendation of the Agricultural Committee, and a report of the. Science Faculty concerning the college objectives. The committee recommended that the objective should be a fully-equipped School, ofc-Agriculture, with its own, laboratories at the college, and its own farm or farms for teaching and re- i search purposes. It thought that the" ne)ffly-appointed Professor of Agricul-. fcure should- advise as to how thie objective might best be reached,' but that, in the meantime, the council could, seek an opportunity of making the position clear to the Government, and prepare it-for a request for laboratory accommodation and-equipment, and-for such further help as would make the hew school efficient, so far as it was possible'with a limited staff.-it being recognised that the school .should not be a charge on the already, strained resources of the college as they existed to-day. . The Faculty, after going very carefully into the matter, of accommodation'available for the Professor of Agriculture, reported that a private room, suitable for the professor'until adequate accommodation could be made for agriculture, could "be made available; lectures coiild be given in one or other of the existing lecture-rooms, but there was no room available for use as an agricul- ■ tural laboratory. The faculty recommended that the Government.be asked to provide laboratory accommodation outside the college, until adequate extension of the buildings, or tetter, the erection of new buildings should enable the teaching in agriculture .to ibe fully centred here. In the equipment of. the laboratory" and in other steps in the founding and development of the School of Agri.culture, the efficiency •of other ■ departments of the college should, in its opinion, by no means be allowed to be impaired by drawing upon Jthe already in: adequate" income that had been avail-' able for . those departments. ■