THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1912. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10690, 9 August 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1912. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

l'lie Prime Minister has decided that one Agricultural College shall be established in the North Island, and one in the South, ore similar lines to the Hawkeshury College, in New South Wales. This decision will be Avelcomed by the farming community, for it will provide the means for imparting .scineific agricultural education of a most important character, it has for many years been a reproach upon our Parliamentary institutions that not a penny -as been, expended upon higher agricultural education. It is true that Lincoln College, in the South island, has afforded advantages in this direction to a limited number of young men.. It has not, however, been available to the children of the poor, nor has the scope of its operations been sufficiently elastic. We would urge upon the Government the damns of the Wairarapa to, the North Island institution. We have hi the .neighbourhood of Mai'terton an ediicataion reserve of a hundred acres, the soil of which is of such: varied character as to render it eminently suitable for experimental work. In addition to this, :Mastertou posseases an educational endowment,, the proceeds from which can be devoted to the subsidising of the institution'. We have also an A. and P. Association, the members of which have already .expressed their desire to be of assistance to the Government in the matter of providing stock, etc, for a>n agricultural college. With our climatic conditions so favourable, -our proximity to the seat of Government, the seaboard so convenient, and our accessibility to ail parts of the North Island, wo offer inducements which are possessed by possibly no other district in the Dominion. If the Masterton Trust Lands Trustees aro well advised, they will make an immediate and definite proposal to the Prime Minister mt the subject.