WARM WORDS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 851, 24 June 1910, Page 8

WARM WORDS.

MR. BUICK AND THE MINISTER. | OVER THE DAIRY SCHOOL. The much discussed dairy school site question was touched upon at the smoke concert of the National Dairy Association. I Mr. D. Buick, M.P., when replying to i the toast of "Parliament/' staled that the establishment of a dairy school had been definitely promised by the Minister for Agriculture. Mr. R. M'Nab: "I will carry it out." The Hon. T. M'Kenzie: "You never got any such promise from me." Mr. Buick: "I didn't say it was you." Mr. Mackenzie: You had better jx> careful; you had better make sure. Mr. Buick: "I have never been sure about, you, Mr. Mackenzie, and I will go a little bit further, and say that I don't think anybody else has been suro of Mr. Mackenzie." , The speaker." went on to. say that if Mr.- Mackenzie would go-through tho present show, and say that it would not-be improved bv a thorough good dairy school it would be surprising. He did not know where the dairy school was going to be. (A voice: Ilawera.) A school established in Pahnerstou North would be in n position central enough to serve the whole of New Zealand, and lie "hoped that the time 1 was not I'ar distant when the proposed , institution would be-realised. Dcaliug with the question later in ! the evening, tlie Hon. T. Mackenzie rei marked that Palmerston North people I had had experience of,the "stiff back" in interviews with the lion. Roderick M'Kenzie, and the Hon. Mr. Millar, lie would show (hem'a'stiff back now on this proposal. "You talk," the Minister continued, "about a dairy school for Palmerston. What .do. .you want a- dairy

school for?" "The responsible officers of (lie Department of .Agriculture," lie added, "were giving useful information to Ihe farmers, and the demand was made that more instructors shoulil he sent about the Dominion for the purpose of bringing home to the managers of factories what means should be taken to improve their outputs. These men went iulo the homes of the people, who wero not sending pure milk to the factories. These were matters for rectification, because dirty suppliers must not be allowed to interfere with the output of a wliob dairy and depreciate its value. I[e eotild not say what might be done later, but, so long" as lie had more important work to do with the funds at his disposal. he was emphatic in his statement that there would be 110 dairy school at Palmers!on. (A voice: Have it nt Itawora.) There had been nn urgent demand for the importation of more excellent dairy stock, and the Government, a few days ago, had authorised an expenditure of iloOO to bring out some of the best Jersey stock obtainable in the Old Country. (Applause.) Therefore, as long as the money could be put to better uses, ho would not spend it 011 a school of dairy instruction in Palmcrstou."