FARM SCHOOLS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1930, Page 6

FARM SCHOOLS

MR ATMORE’S AIM

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) MASTERTOX, Eel.. 25.

The ■Minister of Education, Hon H. Atinore. who is paying an official visit to Wairarapa, hfcd a busy day in inspecting various primary and secondary schools of the town and immediate neighbourhood. The Minister addressed the children at each school, and also sp-.vhe at the luncheon of the Optimists Club, and later at a function given in his honour t.y the MastevDOn Borough Council. Referring to the Penrose grant recently made by Cabinet to equip a farm school in Wairarapa, the Minister slated it was intended to establish other farm schools in New Zealand. He regarded the Feilding High S< hoof as one of tin' most useful in the Dominion, because it combined practical and cultural education. However, the establishment of these would not 1 e overdone, hut sufficient would be established to reinstate the farmer’s self rc inert and make him a far more important factor than he had lieen accounted hd' erto fin:-the economic life of the Domiiyen. /Referring to the effect oi edtuaticn. the Minister gave his opinion thrt ti. present state of affairs was entire 1 due to tlio neglect of reorganising the farmer’s real position in the economic sphere- of things in New Zealand. Palliatives, though necessary, increased the root- of the trouble, and unless a true remedy were found, a time would come when it would he impossible to find employment through ordinary channels. The’ vote to Penrose Farm would serve not only to educate more farmers, but to gain better general recognition of the importance of farming, oil which all other industries depended.

Representations were made urging the necessity for the erection of a school in eastern Masterton, a site for which was recently purchased. The Minister, who recently visited South Wairarpa "towns and opened lour dental clinics and new school buildings or additions, leaves for Eketahuna in the morning.