TO ENCOURAGE FARMING
SCHOOL COURSE NEEDED MINISTER SYMPATHETIC Press Association. AV ELLINGTON. Friday. An encouragement for tow-n boys to qualify for rural occupations by providing an agricultural course in postprimary schools in or near a city, was ; the tenor of one of the remits pre- : sented to the Minister of Education. • the Hon. R. A. AVright. this morning. I on behalf of the Technical Schools* Association Conference. The Minister agreed that the idea was a sound one. especially in view of the drift to the towns. He pointed out that there was an agricultural school at Feilding. also the Ma-se> Agricultural College, but he presumed the idea was that there should be ' something nearer tho homes of the j pupils. They would have to go some distance out into the country, otherwise they would have to pay a high price for land. The Christchurch Technical College had leased land for an agricultural class, but it feared that at any time it might be ordered off. He agreed that the boys should be encouraged to go on the land, and the department would see what could I>< done in the direction asked.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 442, 25 August 1928, Page 11
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191TO ENCOURAGE FARMING Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 442, 25 August 1928, Page 11
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