AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Shannon News, 5 March 1926, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

NO IMMEDIATE DECISION. ADVICE TO FARMERS. It is understood that it is unlikely a decision will be come to immediately respecting the site of the Agricultural College which is to be established in the North Island. One of the reasons for this probably is that tiie question of policy lias not yet been settled. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. 0. J. Hawken, says that he fully appreciates the need for agricultural education. The people of New Zealand should feel that they, were all equal; perhaps the farmers had been a little jealous of the townspeople who seemed to them to have better opportunities for education. The farmers .must be given something more than they had had up to the present, and itwas thought that the establishment of an agricultural college would meet their needs. Mr Hawken said that there was room for improvement on the farms, or on most of them. He believed it would be much better for farmers if they would invest more of their money in their farms instead of trying, to gather easy money outside. , It was his Arm belief that too much money was going off the farms, and he considered it his duty to say so.—N.Z. Times.-