TRAINING FOR FARMING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 12

TRAINING FOR FARMING

PROPOSED COLLEGE COMMITTEE’S INQUIRIgg •■This committee has been j cr time endeavouring to bring ab ’ realisation of an agricultural - U ' school in the northern as We jj ' the southern suburbs. This j* tive has been placed before tl e °T ister of Kducation, who is that a system shall be as great an agricultural bias as *!" sible. 1 ' jiHI This is the opening Paragraph circular letter addressed by the a land Provincial Agricultural E*A Committee to "HeadmantmT Schools. Local Bodies, Fruity. Associations and Parents on thV^L' The letter goes on: “In the onit of the committee one such higa should be located somewhere hr,, Avondale and Henderson. Thu if established should comma*? 1 least 100 scholars in 1930 an( - A 1931. Here agricultural inrtnu.would be given such as has boen , gested by our committee. n JJv also give prominence to fruit- gn? and other branches of horucuiSuch an institution would be o u' benefit to settlers and residents North Line. "\\ ith a view* to convincing the u ister and the Education Board of possibilities of such a school, be glad if you will make inquiri* to the number of children who be prepared to attend in your and district. In making this estr* it should be borne in mind that • Minister has suggested that n frit should be the aim to give a tinetive agricultural bias to the cr ren at the mental age of 11 3ear? Already several letters have \ received in reply to the circular at least one public meeting has k convened in the North to consider question.