ROTARY CLUB.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 286, 6 November 1925, Page 10

ROTARY CLUB.

YESTERDAY’S LUNCHEON. Mr L. J. Wild, M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S.. Director of tho Feilding Agricultural High School, was the speaker at tho Rotary Club luncheon yesterday afternoon. Rotarian H. L. Y'oung presided and introduced the speaker, who stated that, with regard to tho recent University education commission, Mr Tate had made an important discovery in that we were “tied by tradition.” One of tho things tho New Zealander was proud of that he was individual, but if wo studied the question properly it would bo seen that our secondary schools, etc., were not modelled on tho needs of the largo numbers of pupils that came in, or their wishes for after-school career and varying interests, but on tho English methods. The country had not taken sufficient steps to improve agricultural education, and agriculture was not important to tho country; with regard to tho minerals of the Dominion, some of the most brilliant scientists were in tho Geological Survey, but it it was worth while to spend so much money on an industry which produced only about £OOO,OOO yearly, surely to goodness it was worth while to spend twenty times as much on education in connection with an industry that was of great wealth to the Dominion. Mr Wild spoke on matters relativo to the teaching of history in tho secondary schools, history in general. “If wo were to learn history at all, we should learn so as to understand foreign countries and get on well with them. " At the conclusion of his remarks Mr Wild was accorded a vote of thanks.

Next Thursday will be Ladies’ Day at tho Rotary Club.