SCHOLARSHIP FOR FARMERS’ SONS.

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 6

SCHOLARSHIP FOR FARMERS’ SONS.

An excellent method of perpetuating- the memory of one who devoted the best years of his life to the service of his fellow farmers has been adopted by the “N.Z. Dairy Exporter,” which announces its gift of a Massey College scholarship in dairying in memory of the late Mr. Dynes Pulton.' The conditions of the scholarship grant (which are outlined elsewhere in this issue) offer a two years’ course at the college to the sons of dairy farmers or dairy farm employees. This is something new and also something very much worth while and it is to be hoped that it will prove the forerunner of other gifts which will similarly offer educational advantages of practical benefit to the youth on the land. Coming from the source it does, there is reason to believe that the course to be provided will be “practical” from the point of view of the young man who wants to know, not how to be a lecturer or “expert,” but how to be a better farmer. The best of our farmers , admit that theirs is a vocation about which it is impossible to “know everything” and the majority of them, while they will always maintain (and rightly) that there is no school like the school of experience, will admit that a knowledge of the developments of modern agricultural methods will assist the young farmer of to-day to benefit more quickly from the lessons of expcricnce. It may very well be that scholarships such as this will prove - to bo the forerunner of something very much bigger for the future, providing New Zealand witli the equivalent of the Danish folk colleges which provide for the whole of the young generation of farmers in that country, the advantages that will be given to the fortunate few who obtain this latest New Zealand scholarship.