GIFT FOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
AN AUSTRALIAN'S OFFER.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
Adelaide, October 16. Mr. Peter Waito, tho well-known agriculturist, who has presented to the university his house and 134 acres of land at Urrbrae, near the city—tho valuo of the property is £50,000 —for the purpose of establishing an agricultural high school, stipulates that half tho land ah all be for agricultural and kindred studies, and tho balanco a public park, and that no succession duties shall be levied on the proporty. 11l making tho offer lie pointed out that the time was approaching when Australian manufacturers would more than keep pace with the demand, and that tho natural outlet for the rising generation appeared t > be tho producing of wealth from tho land. He urges, in view of the keen competition, tho need to scientifically equip agriculturists in tho best possible manner.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19131017.2.67
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
143GIFT FOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1883, 17 October 1913, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in