FARM TRAINING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 90, 17 July 1945, Page 7

FARM TRAINING

WORK OF REHABILITATION PEAK YEAR I?M<> Anticipating 1J)1(5 as tlie peiik year regarding the number of exservicemen farm trainees the Rehabilitation Board lias recommended that temporary accommodation should be provided at Lincoln Agricultural College as soon as it can be arranged. A building extension programme had already been pro-r posed but it was decided that this would not be completed in time to cope with the influx of ex-service-men students that is expected. j Commencing at the beginning of May, the first course in arable farming has been completed at Lincoln College. The course which lasted for four weeks was designed to meet the needs of men with good, experi,- [ ence of grassland farming but without experience of cultivation the. handling of supplementary forage crops and the implements used in their production. Ex-servicemen who took the course, have commented favourably upon it. At Massey Agricultural College, where ex-servicemen farming students are also trained it is now proposed as a result of experience to stage four short and intensive courses of nine weeks each instead of three and to have two 18 weeks '9 courses instead of one as in the past. It is expected that .the extra courses will do away with the banking up of students from the start of the existing third term course until the commencement of the following academic year, and so relieve the strain 011 the college staff and on the accommodation. The proposal "lias been approved -by the Rehabilitation Board.