AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.
Tho Dunedin Star says that the agricultural colleges proposed to be established in each island are to be planned on ambitious lines, the expenditure 'being about £200,000. As Lincoln College to isome extent meets South Island needs, the Government propose to go on with the North Island College first. Before tho matter is finally shaped a prominent member of the Government party will visit the Hawkesbury Training Farm, New South Wales, which is on the lines, it is stilted, on which the New Zealand institutions will be shaped. There the college accommodates 200 resident pupils. It has large farm buildings, lecture halls, class rooms, and laboratories for practical work in chemistry, physics, botany, entomology, 'bacteriology, and nature study. The farm includes 1000 acres under cultivation, and there are separate departments devoted to horticulture, poultry, farming, stock, pigs and dairying. The staff number nearly 30.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 24 January 1913, Page 4
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146AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 24 January 1913, Page 4
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