PARLIAMENTARY PARTY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2791, 30 September 1924, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY PARTY

VISIT LEVIN.

A party of six Parliamentarians visited Levin yesterday, namely Messrs Rolleston (Waitomo), Munro (Dunedin N.), Edie (Clutha), Witty (Riecarton), McMillan (Taurangn) and Armstrong, while Messrs Linklater and Field represented the disfriels concerned. The party was met at the Levin station by the Mayor (Mr T. Hobson), Messrs D. W. Matheson, vice-chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, G. A. Monk, chairman of the Horowhenua County Council, and members of various local bodies throughout the district.

The object of the visit was to urge the claims of the Weraroa Development Farm as the site for the proposed agricultural college and the visit was at the invitation of the Levin Chamber of Commerce, through Mr J. Linklater, M.P. The visitors were conveyed to the Central Development Farm, where they spent some time in inspecting (lie stock and surroundings. They expressed surprise at the work which was being carried on the 809 acres of land, most of which is of first class quality, and upon which are erected £40,000 worth of buildings. The pedigree herds of Red Polls and Friesiana were objects of keen interest, while other experimental work was also inspected. At a Subsequent social gathering to which the visitors were welcomed AH Monk stressed the future which must await the district after the hydro-electric power had been definitely installed, while other local speakers advocated the Weraroa Farm as a sile for the proposed college. The visitors were non-committal as to their opinions of where the college should be erected. Mr Munro vent as far as to assert that no place in the Dominion had a stronger claim to the College than that district. He assured the people of Levin that he was with them in their desire, and advised them to go ahead and they would have his heartiest support. Tf they went ahead they must prevail, he said. Mr Field, in his remarks, commented on the fact that till two years ago the people were resting content in the knowledge that the college was to be definitely erected at Weraroa, but, owing to several requests from other parts, matters find become somewhat complicated.