THE DAIRY SCHOOL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9075, 15 February 1908, Page 3

THE DAIRY SCHOOL.

Minister. MoNab on. Thursday told a Levin deputation that*theydid not realise the magnitude of the ( under* taking to establish a dairy .school. As to the State farm, be would give them a word of advice.' It would be am is take' to suggest that.rthe ' farm should be shifted if the dairy school was there. He> had the offer in-writing that if he could shift it - they could, have the land for nothing and £SOOO cash towards the cost, and that was always available just for the" trouble of shifting the herds. So they might if they wished have the farms for closer settlement though he certainly advised them not to. So far as the experimental site of the dairy school was concerned, they could do it as well in the centre of Wellington as on the Levin farm, the Palmerston Show-ground, or on Mr Lethbridge’s property. This did not apply to the school, but in other parts of the world there were experimental stations, within the bounds of cities larger than any cities in the Dominion. He could not indicate what might be the decision on the question. He hoped that when the decision was come to ft would be recognised that they had had a difficult task in: selection, and that • they - had shut out every consideration of the benefit to any locality and only considered the benefit to the industry which had its factories from the Bluff“to Auckland. There was nothing in the suggestion that the larger communities were bad for students. The finest medical students , were turned out at Edinburgh, better than at Wellington or Dunedin, and Edinburgh was a larger place than either. Then they would, have to consider whether the place could accommodate students in the towns first university students were accommodated, or Whether they must build special accommodation for them as they would have to do if on a farm. They had between £2OOO and £BOOO of actual cash in hand accumulating for a number of years to go on with the building directly the site was fixed, and he hoped to have it in working- order for the next slack season of the factories in an elementary form, and the instruction part to be ready to go on with next year. They would have to trust to the opinion of the Government on the whole as to what was best for the industryand the. Dominion.