LINCOLN COLLEGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1929, Page 5

LINCOLN COLLEGE

FURTHER GOVERNMENT GRANT.

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, August 29. In response to a request that the Government should 'make an annual statutory grant of £3lOO to Lincoln College,' Sir J. Ward gave an assurance ! to-day, to a deputation from the Board of Governors which waited on him and the Ministers of Agriculture and Education, that the Cabinet would Took upon the matter with a favourable eye. Introducing the deputation, Mi' Kyle, M.P., stated that recently four members of the staff had left on account of greater inducements elsewhere. Mr Buddo, M.P., said 'it was a reflection on the education system if Lincoln College could not be maintained efficiently. Dr Denham and Mr C. DI. Hewlett stressed the good nature of the work being accomplished by the college, and the value 6t science to farming. The necessity for trained experts was now generally recognised. Sir J. Ward, replying, said the case made out was worthy of the utmost consideration. He could not give a definite reply at that stage, as the matter would have to go before Cabinet. He recognised the value of higher education in connection with the agricultural pursuits of the Dominion. Lincoln College was there to stay, and the deputation could take it that it would not be turned down by the Government. He knew the position the college was in, and something required to be done to give it renewed life.