LAND FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Shannon News, 19 March 1929, Page 3

LAND FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.

CONFERENCE jSEEKS RESERVATION OF PART OP CD. PARM. A UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION. A unanimous decision was arrived at by the conference which met last night, at- the request of the Levii; Chamber of Commerce, to consider how the Central Development Farm could best be disposed of. There was an attendance of about thirty, the bodies represented being the Chamber, the Levin Borough Counsil, the Horowheiiita County Council, the A. and P. Association, the Returned Soldiers' Association, Levin and Ohau branches of the Farmers' Union, and the Levin District High School Committee, together with Mr J. Linklater, M.P. Owing to an urgent engagement, Mr W. H. Field, M.P"., in whose electorate the chairman of the School Committee: — That the Government be requested to cut up the Central Development Farm, and that a section of 100 acres be retained for educational land experimental purposes. The objects principally desired were respectively, dairy farms, a- Technical High School, a site for camps, and a section for farm research. The purport of the resolution is, that after making provision for settlement, the Government should reserve 50 acres for educational purposes and 50 acres for a model farm upon which manurial experiments could be made.-A deputation lepresunting various interests conceyred was appointed to wait on the Ministers of Agriculture and Education, andvto be accompanied by Messrs Field j and Linklater, M.P.'s. Farm is situated, was absent, but he ! forwarded correspondence having a j vital bearing on the subject. Mr P. [ W. Goldsmith acted as chairman. After a full discussion, the following resolu don was passed, on the motion of M H. J. Richards, president of the Horowhenua A. and P. Association, am seconded by Mr A. W. Hutching