AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1926, Page 15

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

A FEIhDING VIEW.

,■ I would-like to take thia opportunity of making a iew ,-, enm . ks in regu^ to tg BKricultnwl univer S ity," said Mr. H To* ■Tit*""™" 1 -of the Boaid of Manage". fnru" *elldlu« .A*rioultra«l High gcKool, lurwig the course of hi, address- at the lu'eakiUK-uj) ceremony. .:.■;■ A rpfjuest from the College League for funds had recently been placed before the Feitdmg Borough Council, he mU/VmL'" ■altWigU it hud only been- sympathetically ■ fSS?'. v<s\ Jfc ''wd ■ not - been turned down.' We all hoped that the Government would decide upon Tending. a» the sitt of the college, he continued, "but tincf tlijt m not to be and Palmerstoa North htt been cho«%-";I:w0tild. a«kyoO. rail to fotiet our little differences (Hid be thankful th»t we •»re tovhave itsq close to FeiWcc. . "We hdvc the next best thing," Mr. Toliny continued, "if we h»ve not the college/iand we are iiiteiesled in it in iereral -ways; By hiying the college at F*lmerstou Aovth it opens up great po«wbiliti«a ot co-oidiuation-in work between the collage staff and the staff o£ our High School. It may bo possible that come of the profengors will be able to visit vi and give our third and fourth year students some advnuced lectures in agricultural science. This fact alone should stimulate the intereHt of our scholars in t»e college and pave the way to a better understanding. Then it may be fiosajble that some of our advanced students may, fiom time to time, be able to go to Palmeratcn; North and observe the practical work and experiments that are being done there. "Even to look cursorily at the fact of the establishment of the agricultural college in Falmeifilon JVotth opens up great possibilities »nd showt. the great benefit to be derived by our Agricultural High School," continued Mr. Tolley. "In some quarters you will hear objections raised at the establishment oJ: the college. Some of our worthy .(settlers have declared.that the college in a waste of money. If that is so, then all I can sny it that aH-oduot-tion is a waste of. mmiey. We are in • country where 99 per cent. oE our prosperity dejjendsHipon agriculture, Vet we ha»« not a single. agricultural college in th« country. We have diplomas for engineer* ing, Jaw, medicine, and dentistry, but nothing for-' agriculture. Therefore, I say that we must have an', agricultural college, and,, since we cannot have it ; in Feilding, the-establishment .el it m Palmerstou North i» of far'greater benefit to us than. if. it were, down in'the South Island," .-' ■'•-.•