£3000 For Farm College.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 356, 10 February 1937, Page 3

£3000 For Farm College.

At a recent meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College, the director (Professor E. R. Hudson) stated that while in Wellington last month he interviewed the secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and the Director-General of Agriculture on the matter of the proposed grant of £3,000 to carry out urgent work at Lincoln Colfege. Apparently no progress had been made with the matter since the visit of the Minister, and he was requested to forward particulars of the utilisation of the grant. Particulars had been forwarded immediately on Els return, but no communication had yet been received. Particulars of the proposed utilisation of the grant included Improved cookers' and water heaters, and installation, £600; purchase of horses, £500; new tractor (less allowance on oldi. £250; implements, £150; fencing, grubbing of old gorse, levelling, and five miles of fencing, £540; painting and urgent repairs to buildings. £300; establishment of 300 acres of permanent subterranean clover at Ashley Dene. £225. and repairs to the roof and guttering of the main building, and renovation of students’ annex and domestic quarters. £365.