CHAIR OF AGRICULTURE,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 2

CHAIR OF AGRICULTURE,

_ , | BRITISH APPLICANTS. 1 LONDON, March 6. Sir James Allen was engaged this week, in co-operation with an Advisory Committee of Experts, in interviewing the most promising applicants for the • Chair of Agriculture at Victoria University College, recently founded through the munificence of" Sir Walter Buchanan, K.C.M.G. The post carries with it a salary of £900 per an- ' num. The Committee of Experts were j Sir Daniel Hall (Chief Scientific AdViser to the Ministry of Agriculture), Professor T. B. Wood (Drapers Pr«fessor of Agriculture at Cambridge Uni- I versity), and Professor William Bate- ' son (Director of the Horticultural Col- ! lege, Merton-, Surrey). There were in all 26 applications. Of * these two were from the United States, i three from Canada, two from Egypt, j and 19 from Great Britain. The com- ' mittee had the duty of allotting an j order of merit to the applicants. The j findings will be sent on to the Victoria | | College Council, who have under con- [ sideration the applications from Australia and New Zealand, and with whom the final selection will rest.