CHILDREN AND AGRICULTURE.
.''■•';" A PROGRESSIVE IDEA../ ■ Some time ago a' piece of land twenty acres in extent, situate, near tKe' railway station at Marfan Junction, was' offered bj.-str.;J. G. .Wilson as an.area for tho conducting' of' fields' experiments. Portion of tho area bas been utilised, but not, the.whole.of it.. Mr. Braik,'. the chio,f inspector in tho-Wanganni education district,'' Has 'seized .an ''opportunity to -mako uso;6f the. portion whioh has not been ■placed in cultivation. Mr Braik. a.representative of Tux Dosihtiou understands, intends to convert, Iho land at bis dis-posal-into', experiment plots, and to.brin'g students from, various parts of tho education' district—evtn from: as far as'Taihane—to see them, and learn from them.' It is his'idea to work the schools against oho another, and thus induco keen competition..- It is' considered that .this should give technical instruction' in agriculture a fillip, and be of especial benefit by combining theory and practice.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 8
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149CHILDREN AND AGRICULTURE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 8
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