EDUCATING FARMERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 73, 31 July 1913, Page 3

EDUCATING FARMERS.

CONFER FATE PROPOSALS

[Peh Press Association.] 'Wellington, July 31

Agricultural education was discussed by the Agricultural Conference today, when Air McGregor, Masterton, moved; “That tin's Conference is oi opinion that one fully equipped agricultural college would be better for Xew Zealand than two or three smaller ones; that the Government be requested to give effect to the recommendation, of the'Education Commission.” It was. suggested by one of the speakers, that Lincoln College should be subsidised by the Government, as the agricultural college of the South Island and that’a college might be established in the North Island. The motion was carried. It was also decided that as soon ar the attendance in the secondary department of a district high school in an agricultural or pastoral district reaches an average of fifty an agricultural high school should be established on the lines of those recently set up in Victoria and New South Vales.