AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19659, 10 June 1927, Page 13

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

EARLY ESTABLISHMENT. THE PURCHASE OF STOCK. RESEARCH WORK IN DAIRYING. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Thursday. Matters concerning the Agricultural College were discussed at tho last meeting of the Board of Agriculture, when the president, Sir James Wilson, who is the representative of the board on the Agricultural College Council, briefly outlined the progress being made in connection with the establishment of the college at Palmerston North. Sir James intimated that an agreement had been reached as to the measure of dairy research work to bo undertaken by the college authorities and the Department of Agriculture, and that there was every reason to hope that an equally satisfactory result would be arrived at with respect to the status of Lincoln College. Arrangements were in hand for the purchase of stock, etc., for the college farm, and the council was making all necessary arrangements to push on with the establishment of the college with the least possible delay. The chairman of the council had placed before the people of Hawke's Bay a proposal that they should agree to an annual contribution from the funds of the Howard Estate, to be made to the college for the purpose of research work in regard to wool and animal breeding. After a brief discussion, during the course of which it was stated that the establishment of a college of agriculture at Palmorston North had been made possible by the decision of the Auckland and Victoria University Colleges to amalgamate their bequests, and that the borough of Palmerston North had agreed, under certain conditions, to assist in its establishment by purchasing the McHardy property and presenting it to the Government for the purposes of the college, the board unanimously decided, ia view o£ the great importance of these subjects to Hawke's Bay, to urge the farmers there to endorse tho proposal. The .annual report of t.he Professorial Board of Victoria Univorsity College says it is sincerely to be hoped that tho now agricultural college will be in a position to accept students for the academic year of 1928, as the improved facilities will be of inestimable value to the two schools concerned, and generally to agricultural education in Now Zealand.