AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19203, 20 June 1924, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

SYSTEMATISING -INSTRUCTION. VIEWS Of COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. (Per United Press Association J WELLINGTON. June 19. Agricultural education was discussed by the Council of Education 10-day, and a motion urging the department to systematise the instruction was carried. Mr Banks (Rangiora) said that something should bo clone towards setting up a committee of experts to go into details. Mr Banks (Auckland) thought that Ruakura and Wcraroa Farms should be established as agricultural high schools tinder the control of the Education Department, not the Agricultural Department. Mr Milner (Waitaki) said that when boys at his school finished their agricultural course they found great difficulty in going on to the universities. It would be found that the agricultural course in secondary schools was little more than an academic course. Or Marsden said that what was really wauled was a ruralised course in the.secondary schools as a whole. There, was no use fiidiutr the fact that average pupils taking tho agricultural course were “duds.” Tho intelligence test, had made the discovery that the average pupls were at least a year and a-half behind other pupils as far as mental abilities wont. The following resolution was carried: “That the department bo urged to systematise agricultural instruction from tno primary schools to the university, and that the curricula in post-primary schools ho broadened in this direction; and that the matriculation examination bo amended accordingly; that the Government experimental farms and Lincoln College bo turned into agricultural high schools under the control, at least so far as teaching is concerned, of the Minister of Education.” NO RISK WITH “VELVET” Many women have the mistaken idea that delicate fabrics cannot bo safely washed without expensive soaps. "Velvet” is a mild, pure, and inexpensive washing soap, with’ which even tho daintiest silks ®k! laces can bo thoroughly washed without fear or risk. “Velvet” is a sterilised soap, and is procurable from you.- grocer.—Adyt.