The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1923
Agriculture
Agriculture
It is common knowledge now that Sir Walter Buchanan has given £10,000 to the College to provide for a Chair of Agriculture, SO we can do no more than add Spike's heartiest thanks to the general chorus. Sir Walter is one of those men who appeal to our sense of what is fitting and right in this world's affairs—would there were more like him! What a lot of money V.U.C. could do with! Meanwhile a trust deed has been approved, the Government is under contract by statute to hand out £10,000 subsidy, and by the time this arrives no doubt the worms of the Wellington University district will be indulging in an anticipatory shiver. It remains for the Council to see that only the very best man is appointed to the new chair, and we sincerely hope they will do their duty accordingly. We remain Sir Walter Buchanan's debtors.