366 Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [11 June, 1917. 



III. 



Your Committee considers that if the course submitted above be 

 adopted, sucb a coTirse will afford the kind of scientific training most 

 suitable as a groundwork, from which specialization as departmental 

 officers may be developed. 



Summary. 



Your Committee reports and recomends : — 



1. That a general course in agricultural science is desirable, 



and that the graduates of such a course would be capnblo 

 of rendering valuable service as experts in several Govern- 

 ment Departments and elsewhere. 



2. That the present course has not recently succeeded in attract- 



ing students mainly owing to lack of encouragement and 

 of remunerative employment for its graduates. 



3. That the present course be modified as set out in the syllabus 



given above. This will entail the following: — 



(a) That Mr. A. E. V. Richardson, M.A., B.Sc, be 

 appointed half-time Professor of Agriculture, 

 and several other officers of the Agricultural De- 

 partment as part-time lecturers in special sub- 

 jects. 



(?)) That the farmwork in the second year of the course 

 be carried out at the Werribee State Research 

 Farm instead of at Dookie College as at present. 



(p) That a special building be erected at the University 

 for agricultural purposes at a cost of £1,500. 



4. That the Government be asked — 



(a) To provide a sum of £2,7.50 for immediate expen- 



diture on buildings, &c., as set out in the report. 

 This includes £1,.500 mentioned in 3 (c) above. 



(b) To provide an annual grant of £1,750 for salaries 



of professor and lecturers and for apparatus. 



(c) To undertake to appoint annually for the next five 



years at least six graduates (under the conditions 

 previously set out) in the Departments of Agri- 

 culture, Education, and State Rivers and Water 

 Supply. 



This report was unanimously adopted at the last meeting of the 

 Committee held on 28th March, i9l7. 



On behalf of the Committee, 



(Signed) T. H. Laby. Chairman. 



Hebek GREE^^ Secretai'v. 



