THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
AX AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY.
HAWERA, February 12. The Hon. Mr M'Nab left this morning for New Plymouth. After inspecting the 6ites in Hawera offering for a dairy school, the Minister said Hawera's claims would be considered. Yesterday Mr M'Nab was driven around the district. He visited the various dairy factories, and was entertained at lunch" at Kaupokonui. Speaking there, he referred with pleasure to the great expansion of the dairy industry. The tim» had come, he said, when New Zealand? must cease copying, and find by scientific) research that which is adaptable to her own conditions. The dairy school was not to take the place of technical schools in small' centres. What was proposed was that th» Agricultural Department, as an insitutiorr, would virtually be a university divided into two departments — namely, scientific research and instructional. What the university was to the medical students, law
students, and clerical students would be the dairy university to the farmer's son, and raise his occupation to that of a profession in the highest sense of the term.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 24
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176THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 24
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