London, Jan, 29, The Lord Mayor presided to-day ata luncheon" at" the Mansion House in connexion with an appeal for £100,000 in support of the Tthperial College of Tropical Agriculture. A distinguished company was resent, including the High Commissioners and Agents-General, Mr. L, Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, proposing the toast of the College, described his duties as being those of a worldwide He said 1922 had fully justified itself. The Colonial Office" recommended that opportunities and inducements should be given to our future agricultural officers to obtain a furl course of training at the Colleges while the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation was sending all ite officers ta the College for initial training. He hoped that every tropical portion of the Empire eventually would have its own agricultursl_universit 'Sir Artuur Shipley, the Chair man of the College, announced that among a number of gifts, the Me ternational Health Board' of New York hud offered £1,000 yearly for five years to establish a professor= ship" of tropical sanitation and hygiene—Reute
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