AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19800, 27 May 1926, Page 10

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

QUESTION OF SITES. CLAIMS OF SOUTH ISLAND. (Pep United Pbebb Associat;jn.j CHRISTCHURCH, May 26. The suggestion that the new Agricultural College be set up in the North Island was discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the executive of the North Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The president (Mr J. D. Hall) moved the following motion; “In vieiy of the large amount spent at Lincoln College, as compared ■with the amount of the bequests to the Victoria and Auckland University Colleges, it is desirable to go fully into this aspect of the question before deciding to fix the site of the new College of Agriculture in the North Island.” Mr Hall said that it was proposed that the new college should be established near Marton. One of the reasons advanced for such a step was that about £30,000 had been left in bequests in the North Island for such a purpose. He did not think that Sir Harry Reichel and Mr Frank Tait had been long enough in the Dominion to be able to judge as to the value of establishing the college in the North Island in preference to the South. There were Chairs of Agriculture in Auckland and Wellington, but it was impossible to teach agriculture properly by such means. Under existing conditions much more attention would be paid to agricultural problems in the South Island than in the North. The resolution was carried, and it was decided to send a copy to the Canterbury A. and P. Association, the Canterbury Progress League, and to the Otago branen I of the union for discussion at its proI vincial conference.