MR. M'NAB IN SOUTH TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 46, 13 February 1908, Page 2

MR. M'NAB IN SOUTH TARANAKI.

THE DAIIU SCHOOL. Per Press Association. Hawcra, Lust Sight. llie Hon. McNab left this morning for Now Plymouth. Aicer 'inspecting the sites at Uawera offered for a dairy ■■••nool, the Mmister said thai Hawcra's claims would lie considered. Yesterday Mr. Me\ab was driven around Hie district. He visited the various dairy factories. He was entertained at lunch at tiie Jvanpokonui factory. Speaking there, he referred with pleasure to the great expansion of the dairy industry. The time had come, he said, when New Zealand must cease copying, and find by scientific research that which is adaptable to our own conditions. .The dairy school was not to take the place of technical schools in the small centres. What" was proposed was that the Agricultural Department's institution would virtually be a university, divided into two * departments, namely, scientific research and instructional. What the university was to the medical men, the lawyer student and the clerical student, so would be the dairy university to a farmer's son, and raise his occupation to that of a profession in the highest sense of the term.

At Stratford yesterday Mr. McNab was_ interviewed on the question of placing a dairy school at Stratford. In reply ho stated that applications had been received from a number of places for the establishment of such a school, and Stratford's claim would be considered when the rest were being dealt with. He was afraid, however, that Hie distance from Wellington was too great, a* the one dairy school in the Dominion would have to do for both the North and and South Island. Interviewed on his journev from Tfawera to Stratford with regard to the. opening up of the Wliakarenwhaku and Taumata-Mahoo blocks, bv Mr. V. V. Ttalte, Mayor, and Mr. W.'Svmes. M P. the Hon. Mr. McNab said that as soon as he received the title of the land it wouTd be opened up.—Post.