AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3286, 4 March 1926, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

3 “IT WII/L UOJIE,” SAYS THE \ MAYOR. o * I THE SITE UNCERTAIN. t " r— i: Tho Mayor . (Mr Hope Gibbons) at- t tended last night’s meeting .of tho j Wanganui Chamber of Commerce j and outlined tho deliberations of tho recent .conference held in Marton re- r lative to the selection of a site for j the proposed Agrioultural . College, says tho “Chronicle.”; 1 a The Mayor expressed , satisfaction j. at the arrangements that, were made a for tho delegates to-, view the, avail- c able sites in the Rangltikoi- district, and paid a tribute to the Mayor of r Marton (Mr F. Purnell) for the ■ manner in which ho prepared tho matter to be submitted to the Minister. As far as ho could see, he said, th e college would come, but whether it would be established at f h’ellding, Palmerston North, or Mar- j) ton he could not say, although lio'v felt it would be in the vicinity. It h was estimated that- it would bo left < in tho hands of two professors to 1 E say where the college would bo set I r up. I s Mr J. Morrison endorsed the a Mayor's remarks, and said they did 1 not want to fight about the site, but i they could get in Marton what they i could not get in other districts—a t variety of soils. g The Mayor was thanked for his. report, and for representing tho c chamber at the conference, ]