AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19390, 27 July 1926, Page 10

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

DEGREE COURSE SUBJECTS. FEELING IN CANTERBURY. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] CHRISTCHURCH. Monday. The Canterbury College Board of Governors desires that the status of Lincoln College should be maintained, and that both the proposed new Agricultural College in the North Island and Lincoln Collego should provide a degree course in different subjects. The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the board, on the motion of Colonel J. Studholme: "That in view of the Government's decision to establish an Agricultural College of University standing in the North Island, a division of the subjects of the degree course between the new college and Lincoln to preclude overlapping without sacrifice of efficiency offers the most practicable and economical solution of the problem of higher agricultural education in New Zealand, and one that should both satisfy provincial feeling and meet present Dominion requirements, it being understood that 'each college, although specialising in certain departments for the final two years of the course, would provide a complete graduation course for students."

It was decided that copies of the resolution should be forwarded to the Prime Minister, the Ministers of Education and Agriculture, Mr. I). Jones. M.P., and to the chairman of the South Island members of Parliament Association.