AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

Waikato Independent, Volume III, Issue 183, 25 January 1906, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

PROPOSED COLLEGE AT RUAKURA. Mr J. D. Melville, vice-chairman of the Hamilton branch of the Farmers’ Union, has received the following letter from Mr H. J. Greenslade, M.H.R.:— “ Dear Sir, —I have to thank you for your kind letter drawing my attention to the importance of requesting the Government to set apart a suitable and sufficient area of land in the King Country as an endowment to provide for the maintenance of an Agricultural College at Ruakura. I need scarcely say that the proposal has ray heartiest support, and I will gladly do ray utmost to assist the laudable object yourself and others have in view, and which I am convinced will commend itself to all interested in the promotion of agricultural education. I will make the necessary representations to the Government and do all I can to secure an endowment for the purpose mentioned. "With kindest regards.— Yours very sincerely. H. J. GREENSLADE. Mr Melville intends to bring the matter before the Chairman of the Cambridge Farmers’ Club and other branches of the Farmers’ Union with the view of inviting their support for the action of the member for Waikato.