BIG CHANGES.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 9

BIG CHANGES.

FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE. AN EXPERT’S FORECAST. (Special to Times). CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Forecasting some very big changes in agriculture, Professor E. R. Hudson, director of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, in an address to members of the Chrischurch Rotary Club, emphasised the inadequate attention paid to the professional training of agriculture students, and urged strongly that assistance should be given to primary industries in the Dominion by a greater concentration on Ibis training. There was every reason to believe that in Hie future there would he a greater need of technical guidance in rural Industries, Professor Hudson said. The need for not only technical but economic guidance, too, would be greater than ever In the past. Agriculture in the Dominion had been carrying on for almost a century, and, speaking broadly, Hie pioneer stage was passing rapidly, and agriculture was becoming an increasingly complex study. Considering Hie work here and the work In other countries, it could lie said that agriculture was now on the threshold of big changes, and T the people of New Zealand were going to make Hie best of their opportunities they would have to appreciate the increasing nfeed for I lie sound professional training of students, and lo understand I hat the work of agricultural colleges and kindred institutions and of the Departments of Agriculture and of Scientific and Industrial Research was of increasing importance and would play a far greater part than ever in Ih • past.