AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12357, 29 January 1926, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

FOR THE NORTH ISLAND CONFERENCES TO BE CALLED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 28. The question of the establishment of a school of agriculture for the North Island was fully discussed at a special meeting of the Council of the Auckland University College. The obuncil came to a' unanimous conclusion, embodied in the following resolutions: “That this council is of the opinion that the interests of agricultural education in the Auckland province, and in New Zealand generally, will be host promoted by means of a combination between Auckland and Victoria University Colleges in the North 'lsland J , that in order to secure that result a conference should be held in Wellington by representatives from each college council as early ns possible to consider the question and prepare a scheme for co-operation in the establishment and control of such an agricultural college; that the president and Professors Segar and Worley be appointed to represent this council at such a conference and report to the council at another special meeting.” In pursuance of these resolutions, the Hon. George Fowlds will leave Auckland on Monday eveping to attend a conference with the Victoria College representatives to be held next Tuesday morning at Victoria College, where he will bo met by Professors Segar, Worley, and Riddet, who will in the meantime arrive from the South. The whole question will then receive full discussion by the representatives of the two colleges, and from the attitude of the Auckland council it is quite certain that no parochial sentiment will enter into the treatment of the matter at the conference.