The Howard Estate

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 78, 16 March 1923, Page 5

The Howard Estate

PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. A MINISTERIAL VISIT. Sir George Hunter. M.P., has advised the secretary of the iNapier Thirty Thousand Club (Mr. S. P. Spiller) that the ±lOll. \v. Noswortny, Minister of Agriculture, will arrive in iSapier by the mail train on Monday evening next, and will visit the Howaru estate on Tuesday. With a view to keeping public interest centred on the proposal to establish an Agricultural College for Hawke’s Bay on the estate, the Club made representations to the Government. and also circularised the Hawke’s Bay M.l'.’b. The visit of the Minister is the outcome of these representations. On th* ground that the estate was not suitable, the Government has stated that it could not establish a college there, and proposed to put it in the vicinity of Levin. It is generally understood that the late Mr. Howard’s intention was that the estate should be used as a college for instructions in the development of second-class pastoral land, and that the estate is entirely suitable for this purpose. Mr. F. Luckie who has had a vast amount of experience in rough country, has expressed the opinion that the estate is suitable for a college, as there are millions of acres of second-class land on the East Coast which can be developed if experienced men ar© available to take it up. “It is no use. said one man this morning, “for university students to go to the college. What is wanted is farmers’ sons. This college will not be a place for instruction in intensive cultivation. We want a college on the same system as the Hawkesbury College in New South Wales. However, the Government may have a different idea of the class of college which should be established.” Th© Howard ©state is approximately 8,000 acres of heavy country and sec-ond-class pastoral land.