THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1929 AN IMPORTANT PROJECT

Wairarapa Age, 13 March 1929, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1929 AN IMPORTANT PROJECT

The great need of broadening the foundations of agricultural education in this country is very generally recognised, and no one can doubt that the Soldiers •’ Training Farm at Pen- . rose holds valuable and important posi sibilities from this point of view. The j suggestion made some months ago by .(Mr G. B. Sykes M.P. that this farm should be utilised as a centre of agricultural training for New Zealand boys was very much to the point. The farm is extensive and well (suited for training purposes, and it carries a considerable number of useful buildings, inI eluding dormitory and living quarters. The proposal to use this valuable public asset as a training centre for ' New Zealand boys will be interestingly elaborated at a public meeting to be held to-morrow night. A practical lead will be given, not only by representative district farmers, but by the Hon. E. Newman M.L.C., chairman of the , Flock House Trustees. The enterprise which centres on Flock House, the training of immigrant, lads and girls from Great Britain for a life on the land, has been developed with great and. gratifying success, and it need not oe doubted that an equally valuable purpose will be served by a training farm organised on right lines for the benefit of New Zealand lads desirGus of taking up farming industry. Although the projected utilisation of the Training Farm at Penrose in this way is of more than district scope , and importance, it is essential that it should be taken up at the outset in a spirit of practical enterprise if it is : to be carried through with success. Proof of that spirit will best bo given . by a large attendance at Thursday , night’s meeting. The Training Farm , certainly is capable of being mode a , very valuable addition to the existing educational foundations in the Waira- , rapa and those who are moving active' ly in the matter are entitled to look , for whole-hearted public support and 3 must oe given that support if the right impression is to be made upon the Gov- j emment.

THE ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY It may be hoped that the annual meeting of the Masterton Orchestral Society this evening will bo the prelude to another season of progress. The development of an amateur orchestra is, of course, a process attended by many inevitable difficulties and discouragements, but there is a goodi deal to set down on the other side of the aeeount. The Orchestra has made creditable progress as far as it has gone and only enthusiasm and good team-work -ire needed to enable it to scale new heights of achievement. The best incentive and inspiration to continued effort is that there are some tentative signs, at least, of a growing appreciation of -good music, and that in view of the attention that is being paid to musical education in the schools and elsewhere this tendency may be expected to expand. The Orchestra made promising headway last season and should be able to build upon this good record in the seaeon about to open. ,