The Telephone. WITH WHICH INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 303, 6 December 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. WITH WHICH INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6.

This morning Mr, T, J. Dickson, oi the Argyll Hotel, received the gratifying intelligence that his son Master John Moore Dickson, who for the past three years has been at the Agricultural College at Lincoln, Canterbury, had passed his final examination. Since Mr. Dickson’s son commenced his studies in the art of agriculture, that choice of pursuit in life being to some extent his own selection, he passed the several intermediate examinations, most creditably. The question often arises, “ What shall we do with our boys ? and the answer “ marry them to our girls ” does not deal sufficiently comprehensively with the subject. The cry out in many parts ot the colonies is the want of thorough practical farmers, men who understand the science and art of agriculture. Poverty Bay is as much in need of that class of people as any part of the colony. Parents might find it to the advantage of their sons, to place them in the position of gaining a thorough knowledge, scientific and otherwise of agriculture by sending them to schools established for the purpose of imparting information on that subject, instead of converting their offspring into clerks or solicitors an occupation more genteel no doubt, but already overcrowded and likely to be more so.