VETERINARY INSTRUCTION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 5

VETERINARY INSTRUCTION

AT THE TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

The question c'f imparting instruction itf veterinary science came up for discussion at the meeting of managers of t'lis Mastcrton Technical School lastevening.

Tn? clKKrman. (Mr W. H, Jack* mi) l ' stated siat he and" Mr O'Loary had J been able to do nothing further in the matter. (He *had interviewed Mr QuinnelJ, of Feilding,, as to tho proposed classes, and kid (practically '; made arrangements for ham to conduct the class, but owing to the lack cf • pup-port forthcoming, -he was afraid they would have to let the matter ! d,rop. He was very much disappoint- , I ed at the attitude taken up by the j Masterton A. and P. Society, which bad been written to in reference to ' the class. TQi© -Board's letter to the (Society had sheen merely received, and ' no steps were ta'ken to assist in the • forming of the class. He (Mr Jackson) tbouglxt tkit die A. and P. Society would liavo gladly received a 'suggestion that could not help but benefit the farming community, and •without the assistance of the Society in the formation of the cla.se, it was difficult to see liow they could get sufficient members to join, if the people whom tho matter cliieifly concerned showed no interest in. the. scheme. In other districts the farming eommiunities received, with open arms the idea of veterinary instruction, and the j classes, were particularly strong in thie- connection. The wool classes 'bad been treated by the A. and P. Association in rfihe sa-me way, which made the efforts of the managers 'of the, Technical School seem worthless. Mr I Q'U iron ell must fop Informed that the class was not to be taken up. and the mattp.r must -bo allowed to fall [ -through. ; Mr Coradin.osaid.'ho wnss very disnip.pointed at the action -of the A. and 1 P. Sncktv in a .matter of so much i-m- ---' portaucc to farmers. ' Mr Daniel .thought t.lwt •! the class were once started, it .would be successful from the ih-eginnkig. He was afeo disappointed n-t the action- of the A. and P. Society in ignoring a riuvfc--1 tor of .riiioh vital interest to the farming comm-n n.ity, t 'I'll;, following motion was then car■j ricd:— "That the Managers of the -.; Tc-fiiien! School. judgu?,g from the, reports in the Press on their request for blip in the securing of pupils for the -proposed vevtc-rmary ohm?,rs, feel ir disappointed at the little interest ir .shown, by the A. and P. Society \n the '" matter r£ the technical training of J young farmer*."