AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1926, Page 9

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

CANTERBURY SUGGESTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association Christchurch, Last Night. . A conference convened by the Canterbury members of Parliament committee was held this morning but the proceedings were conducted in committee Besides the members of Parliament there were present, representative of the Canterbury A. and P. Association and of each of the other A. and P. Associations which elect the board of governors of the Canterbury Agricultural College. At the conclusion of * the conference the following resolutions were handed to the reporters: That this meeting agrees to the handing over of Lincoln College to the Government provided that the Government will undertake (a) that no existing agricultural college be given higher status than that of Lincoln; (b) that the present Lincoln diploma and degree courses will be maintained and that the college will be so equipped, staffed and financed, as will ensure its capacity to turn out agricultural leaders end research workers. (2) That in the opinion of this meeting, the Dominion's requirements in regard to higher agricultural education will be best served by the establishment of one New Zealand agricultural college having two branches of equal status, one *“* in the North Island and one in the South. Mr. D. Jones, M.P., was appointed the convenor of the committee, to confer with the Government and to take such other action in the interests of agricultural education and of Lincoln College as may ba thought advisable.