AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 12

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S ADVICE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

PALMEESTON N., This Day

"When I speak of scientific agricultural education in the Dominion, and of the proposed Agricultural College, I am on dangerous ground. Ido nope, however, as the matter is of such intense importance, that the local interests will be set aside, and that the common good will be the deciding factor in the decision arrived at in respect to the proposed institution," stated the Governor-General, when speaking at the dinner tendered to him by the Manawatu A. and P. Association last night. "If we are to compete successfully with other countries," he continued, "we must go in for the scientific study of farming. Some of our competitors have a lead on us, and we must try and catch up with them." While speaking on the industrial trouble threatening the farming industry of the Dominion just now, Sir Charles said, "I would like to appeal to the country at largo to mediate seriously before any grave steps are taken, which might throw New Zealand back at a time when we cannot afford it, and which would place us in the unfortim-1 ate position of some of the other countries.". It was true, us was stated by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, that there was no hope in the policy of hatred. Mr. Baldwin had advanced as watchwords of the hour, "Faith, Hope, Love, and Work. Faith in each other, hope for the future, love for one's fellow neighbour, and work, work, work." "I hope the country will take those words to heart," he stated. Sir Charles also alluded to the wonderful Empire spirit of New Zealanders, and the circumstance that they referred to England as Home. Evidently they were seized of the kinship and pride of race which kept the British people together as a nation, and above nil things made New Zealand a delightful place to live in.