WILL THERE BE A DAIRY SCHOOL?

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 3

WILL THERE BE A DAIRY SCHOOL?

PREMIER'S CUARDED ANSWER..-:.'.' . In Thursday's":-issue I;/(says "our" special Palmerston. correspondent) a local paper , quostioned. the 'accuracy; of the suggestion ; - mado by a Wellington journal that the Gov- ,'. v/eminent did not' intend to .proceed: with: the erection of a dairy, school at Palmerston , North; As tho. question was of 'some imjwrtarico to tho town and district, it ,waß decided . to send an: applicatiori by wire; to headquarters for verification or otherwise of the sug- ; gestion. . A telegram was accordingly, dispatched to Sir Joseph Ward at Timaru, .point-. . ; irig. out tho suggestions and. asking for a st-atenicrit upon the'subject. Yesterday morning a telegram was" received from tho Prime Minister as follows:— ; "Your telegram of yesterday's . ./ .'...date received.,,-Suggest that you; ask ' Evening Post.' to state upon what - . "'• authority,it ;makes."tho statement re- ' 'ferred to.' Ehave heard'nothing of ■ it.—J. G. Ward." > : The Prim'e definite; _ pronounce-. , ment upon tho subjoct has 'occasioned much satisfaction' in town; It- is; probable, how- '; -ever, that the Manawatu;A. and P. Associa- ; tion will, at;its monthly meeting on Tuesday, noxt, 'decide'to inquire definitely what is .the . exact position. .' The last' official communica-, tiori receivedjlby tho association- oh the .sub-; . iect;was; that the plaris.-'of, the ! school had, been completed and approved. a"'-,'. 1 :■ -. In spite of the; view taken in Palmerston; as t-o tho o'f assurance.conveyed in: the Prime. Minister's non-coihmittal answer, 1 thare oert-ainly do'es exist in Wellington a strong suspicion that there *irill be no dairy .; Bchool at'Palmerston;'' ■. ■; J