FEILDING DAIRY SCHOOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 23

FEILDING DAIRY SCHOOL.

THE MINISTER'S INQUIRIES. FEILDING, February 10. The Hon. R. M'Nab arrived at Feilding by the noon train to-day to inspect the proposed site offered by Mr F. Y. Lethbridge, M.P., for a dairy school. After being taken over part of the district in a motor car, the Minister received a deputation on the matter. Mr Fred. Pirani laid before him the advantages of the Feilding district for a dairy school, and showed that the output of the district was 4000 tons of butter and cheese annually. The dairy cattle in the district were valued at £125,000. The Minister, in reply, said the result would be made known in a few days. He explained that the object of the school was to teach people to produce ?n article commanding 1 the top price in the London market. He said the school might become a peripatetic one, and thus be of advantage to the whole Dominion. It was very pleasing to the Government to (see the great interest being taken in the dairy school. No country had done what New Zealand had done for the dairy industry. When the work of the dairy school develoned they would go in for the work of the chemist and bacteriologist and an extreme form of education in dairying. He hoped to see the day come when he should be able to challenge the work done in any similar institution, except in Britain and America. The Minister left for Wanganui to-night.