AUCKLAND LAMENT.

Grey River Argus, 26 February 1926, Page 5

AUCKLAND LAMENT.

WANTED AGRfCTLTURAL C <ll.l. EG E. IN THEIR LOCALITY. AUCKLAND, February 25. A strong attack on the report of the recent University Commission was made by Professor A. C. Paterson, ii an address at a meeting of the Court of Convocation of the Auckland 1 niversity* College. At the same time, he seized the opportunity to state that the decision to found an Agricultural College near Marton was a fatal mis take from the point of view of efficiency. Yet it could not be otherwise, because. owing to the lack, of community support. i t was quite impossible to establish an Agricultural Faculty in Auckland on anything like an adequate basis, but this establishment nt Marton would militate tremendously against the future success of the College of Agriculture. The moral effect on the agricultural stu- i dents of mixing freely and on equal '■ terms with the other students of a I university was an advantage that could not be over-estimated Whore- < ever agriculture study maintained a ] separate existence, the students almost of necessity felt themselves inferior to the students of the Universities. . Thu* the result of the lack of support on the part of the community of Auck , land was that their agricultural col- . lege was doomed to infer.ority in work and standard, -