AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 300, 7 September 1918, Page 10

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION

TECHNICAL SCHOOL DIRECTOHS , VIEWS. ■■■ Following the conference • between the Directors of Technical (Schools and cthe Efficiency Board a sub-committee af the first-mentioned body have drafted tho following recommendations in regard to agricultural education. Thn suD-committoo consisted of Messrs. Opie (Palmerston) (convener), Kalaugher (Auckland), and Gray (New Plymouth);-—

' ' (1) That the Education Department '.should encourage agriculture instruction to a greater degree in the direc■tion: of providing suitable implements, and in subsidising voluntary contributions of land/free of rent. •. (2) That tho functions of the Acri- ' cultural and Education Department should be clearly defined with regard to agricultural instruction generally. ■ :'■' Suggestion:—(a) That the main function: of the Agricultural Department .should be in the direction oi investigation and experiment, (b) That the irork of disseminating tho information .thus obtained should be the function mainly of the Education Department. • (3) That there should be some definits provisions made for the adequate agriculture instructors. (4) That a definite line of demarcajtion should be drawn between manual training in agricultural and technical '■'■ classee in agriculturb as a training for boys who are actually, going to be farmers. ,