Land Problems and National Welfare 



themselves said was excellent and beneficial. 



In some counties even less is spent to-day on 

 this class of instruction than was allocated to it 

 6 or 7 years ago. The money was filched to 

 create pupil-teachers' centres — of all undesirable 

 uses to put it to ! 



In my own county — an entirely rural one — the 

 amount spent on practical instruction beneficial 

 to agriculture had decreased by one half until 

 quite recently, when a decided step in advance, 

 by reviving some of the farm labour classes, 

 was taken, and it is to be hoped that a course 

 of systematic development has been entered 

 upon. 



If this advance is to be maintained and made 

 as effective as the needs of agriculture demand, 

 far more financial assistance must be forthcom- 

 ing from the Treasury. The movement has in the 

 past suffered from the overlapping and friction 

 which existed between the Board of Education 

 and the Board of Agriculture. Though this con- 

 dition of things was strenuously denied by the 

 officials of the two Boards, it was sufficiently 

 evident to local authorities who had the practi- 

 cal arrangements to make. However that may 

 be, a new inter-departmental committee (the 

 necessity for which the Central Chamber of 

 Agriculture and other societies urged so strongly) 

 has been created recently, and the results must 

 work to the benefit of the cause, so that from 



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