AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS
AIMS OF SEDDON COLLEGE Figures showing that 40 per cent, of the agricultural pupils at the Seddon i Memorial Technical College came from | within city limits were produced at a I meeting of the Auckland Agricultural I Education Committee, which was presided over last evening by Professor H. H. Corbin. The meeting resolved to urge the Government to recognise the supreme importance of establishing a system under which qualified students would | have an opportunity of becoming the | owners of farms. This certainty would | be a great influence with parents, j It was also decided that agricultural .colleges ought to be established in dis - tricts such as Pukekohe. where it would be possible to enlist the symj pathy and help of farmers, and in addij tion that it should be possible to ca.rry j out pi-actical work in the school i grounds. It was proposed and approved that areas of not less than 30 acres should be purchased at Panmure and New Lynn for the sites of agricultural high schools. An executive committee was api pointed as follows: —Professor Corbin | (chairman), and Messrs. N. R. TV Thomas (secretary). .T. Hunter, N. G I Gribble and W. F. O’Donnell.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 619, 22 March 1929, Page 10
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