MASSEY COLLEGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 221, 14 August 1930, Page 5

MASSEY COLLEGE

A YEAR OF PROGRESS’. ROLL EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS. The annual report of the Masiey Agricultural College, which was laid on the table in tho House of Representatives on Tuesday, reveals that the institution is making splendid headway. The report states that the various branches of the college activities have steadily developed, and the results of the year’s work may be considered extremely. satisfactory. The enrolment of students totalled 175, which again exceeded expectations. The rapid progress made with the erection of the main and refectory buildings had had a big moral effect on both staff and students. Even the uncompleted building had given a greater sense of reality and substance to the institution. With the completion of the autumn sowing of young grass the farm had been brought to a stage of development very little short of the present requirements of the college. Whereas it had been necessary in the past to push forward the work at quite an abnormal pace, it would he possible to carry out further improvements at a more steady and norrrtal gait. The development work of the pas+, had made a very heavy draw on the time of a number of the staff, and the completion of that phase was a very distinct relief. So far as crops and stock were concerned, the results of the year’s work were quite satisfactory, except for the effect on revenue of the drop in the values of farm produce.