AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
A HAWKE’S BAY BEQUEST. NAPIER, July 4. The Minister of Education (the Hon. R. A. Wright) on Saturday made a suggestion to the people of Hawke’a Bay in regard to the use of money from the Howard bequest for agricultural education. He asked the people to consider associating the money from the estate with one big agricultural college, inatead of' a number of small institutions all over the place. If they would agree it would strengthen the position, and at the same time fire Hawke'e Bay the uie of the money immediately. The idea of the Minister was not to abaorb the money or neglect Hawke’s Bay. "We have already Auckland and Wellington palling together, and we are now
trying to get the othera in and make one good college,” he said. “As it is now, the money from the Howard bequest is accumulating, and you are getting no benefit. It is purely a matter for the Hawke’s Bay people. Let me reiterate that there is no desire to absorb the money from the estate. We could not expect that. I can see, however, the advantages of a united effort. If we can get Hawke’s Bay in we will have a very fine affair.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 21
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