AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

WORK OF LINCOLN COLLEGE. . - The sources from -which the students of Lincoln Agricultural College have been ■ _ drawn this year were referred to by the chairman of the Board, the Hon. E. C. J. Stevens, in a speech at the valedictory luncheon tendered to Mr. Lowrie, the director, last week! Five come from England, two from Tasmania, and 37 fro* . New Zealand. The :last-mentioned: : caoi«from the following districts :-Hawkee. Bay five, Auckland I seven, Wellington nine, , Otago two, and Canterbury ■ 14. When J» , introduced air. Lowrie to a. gathering of, farmers at the college, he had stated th». - ' Mr. Lowrie was the ablest exponent <»„ . agricultural education in Australia. ■ NOT» after the lapse of seven years, they could sea that he had not exaggerated. Mr. Lowrie, in his reply, strongly emphasised the importance of the students« ceiving an education in the secondary; schools before entering the college. Young men who had had every chance and tea., been for five or six years at the <*!WL$gA and were unable to matriculate were no? the kind of men on whom the revenue from, ; ;. public endowments was best spent. Wiww . the last two years between £1200/* Sf| £1400 had been spent out of "^f.^SU 1 permanent improvements at • the Wfe||| He looked upon the competition that tow. . place for, seats on the Board of -G««™£ as a sign that farmers had begun to •g«J,, ciate tie value of the college. Amongfithe matters which he woula like to -** . added to the curriculum was Vernon >* training the students to carry »rms, and ne suggested that training as .mounted «*» would be the most suitable. .„-*«.=- ;; The gold medallist for the year «mj». , from Newcastle High School, among recipients of diploma* were Arm . ] (St. John's College/AucW),^n^Wg ; , ;,; nganui College), and .Gilbert {Cae«*W»» .. College England), , ■ e - ISI