AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
Lord Milner, speaking at the FaYrners' Club in London, stated that there existed an immense need foi the State •encouragement of scientific agricultural education. Before he left New Zealand, Lord Islington gave utterance to a similar remark concerning this country. The experience in Europe, tne United States, Canada, Japan and other countries teaches us that one of the greatest needs of the present day is a scientific knowledge of agriculture. We are spending over a'million pounds a year in this Dominion on education. We are manufacturing lawyers, and doctors,. and professional men galore. We are turning out thrks and mechanics by the hundred. But what are we doing to develop the greatest of all our industries—that pertaining to the soil? We are doing nothing—absolutely nothing I 1) Mr Massey lias promised to provide us with Agricultural Colleges. But these will only be a drop in the ocean. We want more-! Wo must have more! If this country is going to maintain itf position in the commerce of the world, it will have to get to work in earnest upon its rising generation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 4
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184AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 4
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