MR SEDOON IN AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8113, 18 May 1906, Page 3

MR SEDOON IN AUSTRALIA.

agricultural COLLEGES CONTRASTED. LINCOLN COLLEGE CONDEMNED. Received 18,1,2-5 a.m. Sydxkv, May 17. Mr Beddon visited the Hawkesbury Agricultural College and received an enthusiastic welcome from the students. In the course of a speech Mr Seddon add he was glad to find that allclasse> were represented in the College. In Lincoln College, New Zealand, only the ltrge farming classes were represented. In other words, the Lincoln College was not the popular institution inch .as existed here,.

INTERCHANGE OF AGRICDL TURAL STUDENTB.

HONORED BY THE STATE.

Received 18,1.29 p.m. Sidney, May 17.

Mr Seddon suggested that twenty students from the Hawkesbury College should be sent to Lincoln, and he promised to ask the authorities of Lincoln College to send twenty to Hawkesbury. Such a scheme would produce invaluable interchange of ideas in regard to the difference of farming condition* between New South Wales and New Zealand Mr Seddon said he was prepared, if the New South Wales Government would defray the expenses el •ending their students, that the New Zealand Government would defray the expenses of New Zealand's.

The State are entertaining Mr Seddon at a private dinner to-night.