DAIRY SCHOOL SITE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 378, 15 February 1908, Page 2

DAIRY SCHOOL SITE.

The site for the proposed agricultural school is exercising the minds of people in different parts of the Wellington and Taranaki provinces. Palmerston would like

the school soirevvhere within its boui.daiy, Fcia.iiig wants it, and Mr Lvtnbimge, .>l. P., has offeied a valuable sue, fue of cost, to the Goveimueni loi fi,e purpose; Tarauaisi, the huiue <f the golden cow, asks, for and in our humble opinion, is entitled to a hearing ; and lastly,* Levin is on its waistcoat button for it. The Minister of Lands has the whole matter under consideration, and we may rest assured he will not make a final choice without giving the matter the fullest consideration Irom every point of view. Speaking to a deputation at Levin on Thursday night, the Minister said his own district was a larger cheese-manufacturing one than any of those he had been visiting, but it had not Buckley’s chance oi getting the school. He had to throw out the greater part of the Dominion, including his own constituency. He had told all the South Island centres which had applied that the school could not come soutli of Cook Strait, and he had told the people at Auckland that there could be only one school and one experimental station—two in one—and they would . have to content themselves with the . development on educational lines at the Ruakira Experimental Station. The representations of other places would be given careconsideration, and he hoped the decision eventually arrived at would be satisfactory to all parties. The department had now from to cash in hand for the purpose of this school. As soon as the site was fixed they would go on at once with the building, and he hoped to have it in working, order, so far as the elementary portion of it was concerned, by the next slack season of the factories, and that the instruction class would be ready to go to work next year.