GREAT NAME HONOURED
MASSEY COLLEGE WILL RADIATE KNOWLEDGE BENEFIT TO FARMERS (Special to THE SUN.) PALMERSTON N., Ttiesday. “I open this college with the firm conviction that it will honour the great man .whose name it bears, and that it will be a continual and immense benefit to the whole farming community of the Dominion.” With these words the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. O. J. Hawken, formally opened the Massey Agricultural College this afternoon before a iarge assembly of farmers and citizens. “The Government is behind Massey College, and the funds necessary for its working will be available,” declared the Minister. “I am not going to say that I will shovel it out,” Mr. Hawken added, amid laughter, “but the money is there.” The Government knew perfectly well the value of agricultural education, said the Minister, and it had the interests of the farming community at heart.
The college would‘be the centre from which would radiate farming knowledge, and it would justify itself in a way that very few appreciated at the present time. Not only would it turn out men who would take a leading part in higher education, but also experts who were badly needed in New Zealand to-day. The college would turn out experts who would be of great assistance to the department, while there were other spheres of work to be taken up, not only in New Zealand but in other countries. He liked to see New Zea-land-educated men going overseas, as it increased the reputation of the Dominion. Not only would the academic side of farming be dealt with at the college, but instruction would also be given in everyday farming operations, and he hoped, in that respect, that farmers would send their employees along to gain that knowledge. The college would not fulfil its function properly unless the womenfolk were included. The Minister added that he would not subscribe to the statement that the college would not pay, and he could not understand anyone holding such an oldfashioned idea.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 1
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