STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 3

STRATFORD.

STRATFORD AGENCY. Advertisements and items of news for publication in tte Taranaki Daily News should be left at the office of our local representatives, ilson Bros., Broadway, Stratford. Orders for papers may also be left with them. THE MODF.L FARM. ■HON. W. NOSWORTHY'S VISIT. June 9. In response to an invitation from the model farm committee a large number of farmers assembled at the farm on the occasion of the field day to-day 10 mark the. visit of the Han. W. Nosworthy (Minister of Agriculture). After being conducted round the farm and having the various experiments in fertilising, root crop growing, etc., explained to him, the Minister and the. company were entertained at afternoon tea in the farm buildings. Mr. Deem, field organiser for the Agricultural Department in Taranaki, in introducing Mr. Nosworthy, traced the progress of the farm since its inception four years ago, showing that in that time the production had been more than doubled. He said the farm was already a great influence in educational matters and when the new Technical .School, which was being erected on the boundary of the farm, was completed the farm would be of incalculable benefit to that institution.

Mr. R. Masters, M.P., also spoke of the educational value of the farm to the district. Taranaki, he said, was well forward in Agricultural education, and of the 169 schools under the Taranaki Education Board's control 153 had agricultural instruction on their syllabus. They had in the vicinity of the farm a technical school costing upwards of £20,000 in the course of erection, and so instructive a farm at their very door was going to have an important influence on the lives of those boys attending the school with the intention of following farming pursuits.

Air. G. Sangster spoke on behalf of the A. ’and I’. Association, welcoming Mr. Nosworthy to the farm and congratulating the farm manager on the work accomplished. Mr. Hansford, on behalf of the Jersey Breeders’ Association, and Mr. Marchant, for the Friesian Breeders’ Association, also spoke appreciatively of what had been done at the farm and of its instructional value to the community. Mr. Nosworthy was greeted with applause when he rose to speak. He said he had not had to come to Stratford to hear of the model farm, as it was highly spoken of everywhere. He had often advised the extension of educational instruction on the lines of this farm. Pointing out its economical advantages, he said the Government could not spend large sums of money in promoting experimental farms at the present time. It was the spirit of enterprise and self dependence characterised in the farm committee that built up the fibre of the nation; and as long as he held his present position he would spare no effort to secure for the committee a continuance of the Government subsidy.

Mr. Nosworthy’ later inspected the Technical School' in course* of erection and expressed appreciation of its advantages, especially in its relation and proximity to the model farm.

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