MASSEY COLLEGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 8

MASSEY COLLEGE

START OF NEW BUILDINGS iT>«r Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day

This morning the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new buildings at Massey College was performed by the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson. Included among those present were the Hon. G. W. Forbes, the Hon. E. Newman, the Hon. G. J. Smith, and Sir George Fovvlds, chairman of the college council. Later the Governor-General was entertained at lunch by the Borough Council. This afternoon lie will bo accorded a farewell by the citizens. Speaking at the ceremony this morning Sir Geo. Fowlds’ said he anticipated a time when there would he grouped round the building training colleges for teachers where they will imbibe an agricultural atmosphere which would better enable them to pass on to children a bias in favor ,of agricultural pursuits, upon which the prosperity of the country must mainly depend for many years to come. The college will not only give scientific training to a large number of future farmers in New Zealand, but .will bo oxpected to provide scientifically trained men for educational purposes, for experts in the Agricultural Department, and for scientific research. ' When the present building programme is completed and a commodious hostel provided, this will be the most complete agricultural oollego in the British Empire south of the Equator.