AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Shannon News, 5 October 1926, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

THE CANTERBURY ATTITUDE. CRITICISM BY MR FOWLDS. “It lias been very interesting to watch the developments that have taken place in connection with the School c f Agriculture,” said the Hon. George Fowlds. in an address at the annual dinner of the Auckland University College Engineering and Architectural Society .on Saturday evening. “They have had what was called an agricultural college down South for 40 years,” Mr Fowlds continued, “and they were quite content with it, and they thought it was just ‘it’ until two North Island colleges came to the Government with a proposal for the establishment of a real agricultural college. (Laughter.) Then at the last minute when Parliament was about to pass the bill an offer was supposed to have been made to hand over the Southern college to the Government on condition that it was made the only one in New Zea«. land.’’ “It was quite all right,” added the speaker, “to have only one college for the Dominion if it w r as located at Lincoln, but if there was to be one in the North Island then another one was needed at Lincoln as well.’*