AGRICULTURAL TEACHING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 156, 30 June 1914, Page 10

AGRICULTURAL TEACHING.

(fhom our. own CORBESTONDBNT.] t Sydney, June 24. A kumbEr of New Zealanders, including a son of the Hon. A. T. Ngata, are receiving instruction at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, and Mr. G. George has written to the principal (Mr. Potts) asking him to select another instructor in agriculture for him of the same type as . Mr. Donnan." "The Mr. Donnan to whom Mr. George refers,'' writes the Sydnoy Daily Telegraph, "is a young Hawkesbury graduate, who recently relinquished a minor position of experimentalist in the Department of Agriculture to tako a position in New ! Zealand at. twire the salary. There are now no fewer than 11 ex-students of Hawkesbury College- occupying positions in the New Zealand services at salaries of £300 a year upwards. While the Dominion thus seta the standard in the matter of salaries, she must continue to rob the New South Wales Department of Agriculture of its most promising young officers, as they cannot hope, under existing conditions here, to get anything like the same remuneration. It is, indeed, an unsatisfactory position, to find that the Department cannot hold the young men ; it is training up to fill senior positions as they became vacant, or to provide for the ['natural expansion of the staff."