AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 26

AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS

PANMURE AND NEW LYNN SUGGESTED RESOLUTIONS TO MINISTER The Auckland Provincial Agricultural Educational Committee met on Thursday in the Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s rooms to discuss the question of the foundation of an agricultural high school in the province. Mr. D. A. Hay was in the chair and Mr. J. S. Fletcher, M.P. for Grey Lynn, was present. As a result of the discussion the following resolutions were passed and forwarded to the Minister of Educa tion: “That agricultural high schools should be established in districts and in surroundings where it would be possible to enlist the sympathy of farmers in the same manner as obtained at Pukekohe, as well as carrying out practical work in the school grounds.” “That areas of, say, 30 acres, should be obtained for high schools situated at, say, Panmure and New Lynn, at the earliest opportunity as sites for agricultural high schools.” “That this committee strongly urges on the Government the cardinal importance of establishing a system under which when qualified boys may look forward to becoming owners of farms, more particularly as an assurance on these lines would greatly influence parents in committing their children to an agricultural educational course.” A sub-committee submitted a report on the suggested functions and operations of an agricultural high school and it was decided to hold another meeting next week so that members could consider the details of the report. The committee decided not to approve of any proposition for the unification of educational authorities until further information was received as to how such a scheme would effect an agricultural school. It was felt that it was essential that the governors of such a scheel should be men in complete sympathy with its aims and objects.