AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 268, 27 July 1926, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

0 ; — ITS GREATER UNIVERSITY FUNCTION DEPENDS ON PALMERSTON NORTH Palmerston North, July 26. "We all congratulate Palmerston North on the decision which will bring about the establishment here of the agricultural college,” said Professor Ranston, M.A., Litt.D., of Auckland, in the course of his address at the weekly meeting to-day of the Palmerston North Rotary Club. "It must mean a great thing to this city of yours, If matters in regard to the college are done as they ought to be done. I think there are men among you full of visions, dreaming dreams and seeing possibilities, and I hope the citizens of Palmerston North will never be satisfied with having here merely an experimental station, but will want more kinds of degrees than one from the institution that is to be established here. “What this institution may be,” he continued, “depends entirely' I think, on the putting into operation of the thinking powers in Palmerston North. Then the college will be a university, and something which is not merely an appendage to z an agricultural department.”