FOR AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 10

FOR AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

BANGATIKEI'S CLAIM.

(Per Press Association.* WANGANUI, last night

A meeting of the committee appointed to assist in "the selection of tho Agricultural College site to-day carried the following resolution : , “That this meeting hopes that the gentlemen responsible for tho selection oi a site for the proposed agricultural university will keep steadily in mind the true needs and tho full meaning of an agricultural university, and thereby con. contrate upon obtaining, regardless of any district influence whatsoever, a site which will conform with the real needs of a, university. This meeting further urges that in view of the problems in the wheat growing industry the site selection committee should keep before, it the fact that the I’angatikei district others unlimited scope for experiments in cereal growing, as it is considered to be the granary of the North Island. “It is further argued that the close proximity of the Rangatikei district to several lands along the Taranaki and main trunk lines which are deteriorating, is a further reason why the university should be located in that district. This meeting believes that the land upon which the university is to be built, and not- buildings, will constitute the real univursitv, and having in mind the low prices*" of the sites offered in the Ra.ngntilcei district, urges that every factor mentioned herein should be given the most earnest consideration.” The motion is to be presented to the Government by Messrs Glenn, Veiteh, Dickie and Masters, M.’s.P.