AGRICULTURE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 July 1924, Page 5

AGRICULTURE.

- « EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES. WORK BY GOVERNMENT. (by telegraph—press association.) WELLINGTON, July 9. Speaking on agriultural education in the House this afternoon, the Minister for Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) contended that the Government was doing a great deal in this direction. Apart from the specialisation aim of education in every secondary scliool an endeavour was always made to give students a bias in the direction of the land rather than to the cities or professions. Unfortunately the influence of parents in the country districts was hostile to this, many country parents saying they had had enough of farming, and wanted their boys to go into professions in the cities. The universities had yet to determine whether they would ’tench only the scientific side of farming oy whether they would try to teach the whole business of farming, but what was most, needed wore, farm schools where boys could get practical instruction in farming, as at Rauknra Farm. Knowing how important the question of agricultural education was to the country the leader of the Opposition had included it in his amendment, but in face oh w’lmt the Government, had done and was doing the w'hole Opposition criticism under this head lost its point.