DEFINITE PROGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1927, Page 11

DEFINITE PROGRESS

AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL

AVOEDEJG OVERLAPPED

Having inspected the site of the New Zealand Agricultural University College, near Palmerston North, the council which will control it returned to Wellington and spent another day discussing plans. .The meeting concluded with the adoption of a report to the Government formulating a scheme for its consideration, as wherever expenditure is involved it must receive the sanction of Cabinet.

"The council has completed its first sitting, and I consider it has made very satisfactory progress," remarked the Hon. George Fowlds, chairman of the council, in an interview. "The progress is all the more satisfactory when one considers that the members hold widely differing views regarding the nature of the work to be done, and the best method of doing it. While the organisation of an agricultural college cannot be effected in a day, I think we have made definite progress, considering the limitations which are necessary to keep faith with the statement made to Parliament by the Prime Minister last session.

'' Conferences have been held between the council, the chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Besearch. and officers of the Department of Agriculture. These have been exceedingly valuable in ascertaining difficulties to be overcome in order to get the best results ;with a minimum of overlapping. The spirit manifested on all sides in these discussions was everything one could desire, and we have every confidence in the maintenance of that spirit and in endeavouring to envisage each others' viewpoints.. "A similar conference will be necessary, and we hope will be arranged by the Government, with the Governors of Lincoln College, at which tho three parties concerned in this question—■ the Agricultural University Council, the Lincoln College governors, and the Government—will be represented."