HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19240, 2 August 1924, Page 7

HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION.

REMITS TO CONFERENCE. With a viow to promoting horticultural education in all its branches the executive of the Now Zealand Institute of Horticulture will submit the following remits to the annual conference: — That, nxh assistance as the Dominion Council can afford b« given to the movement for the formation of a federation of horticultural societies of the dominion on some basis to bo approved by the horticultural societies themselves. That a committee be set up io interview; (a) The Professorial Board of the Victoria University College, Wellington; (b) the director of tho Education Department; (c) The Director-General of the Department of Agriculture with the view of getting some light on to tito means of “promoting horticultural education in all its branches” in this dominion. The Auckland Institute will recommend that with the view of securing co-ordina-tion and the considered opinion of the leading educationists of the dominion on tho matter of horticultural education in general. and of tho higher branches in particular, tho conference refer tho whole question to tho councils in the four university centres with tho request tho.t tho Professorial Boards of their' respective university colleges be consulted as to tho best means to bo adopted to secure a satisfactory system of theoretical and practical education for tho dominion, -find that tho councils report to tho Dominion Council as soon as possible. The Manawatu Institute wild recommend ; That tho annual meeting urge tho University Senate to so amend the Statutes, that a boy Inking an agricultural or horticultural course (including those sciences underlying agriculture e.g.. physics, chemistry, botany, biology (entomology, etc.), may be able to matriculate in subjects closely allied to agriculture and that French or any other foreign language bo eliminated. Tho Canterbury Institute will recommend: That education in horticulture bo promoted through existing channels as far as possible, tho technical high schools being a good channel. The executive will recommend: That the bud selection work now in progress in connection with tho apricot and the citrus fruits be approved, and that such assistance as may be possible bo given to the movement, with a view to selection work being widely extended as opportunity offers. The executive will recommend : That tho conference consider the question of appointing a Dominion Certification Board (with committees for dealing with each class of plant) in bach of the four centres.