DAIRY MATTERS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2057, 29 May 1896, Page 2

DAIRY MATTERS.

Rksigsation 01. Mr J. S awkrs

Mr John Sawr., who, tor nearly seven years, has been dairy instru.ter under the Department of Agriculture, has resigned bis appointment, to take u» another iaiportant position in connection with the dairy industry. Mr Nawerg. s»ys tbe Times, has exercised a leadinginfluence upon the dairy industry in New Zealand—cooperative dairy. n_, winter dairy shows and Ic_i.sl. tion to 'UpemW producers and. ex port produce, ..being Initiated by him '; indeed, the im.n«try J owes its-'pr.pent 1 •■'position JnJ& greaVj measure to Mr Sawers' exertions ia its '

behalf. Mr Sawers' resignation is to b' ;1 regretted, 'but it is pleasing to learn t' a ■ be is taking up a-position in which h-', may render-services to the dairy industry': lit'lb short of those which he has rendered in the past. ;

CANTERBURY

Some six-young men from Canter ] bury Uistrict>propose going to the Dairy School to be opened at Edendale, in. Southland on Jim* 15th, As there is no lodging accommodation for students within two miles of the dairy factory' where the lectures and course of demon . gtrations are to be given, it has been suggested that the Government might place a railway sbepintr-tnick at thedisr posal of the students from a distance, during the six weeks that tbe dairyin? course will lust. Mr J. B. Maor.wan dairy instructed his ex.rofsed hims-lf favourable to that being done, and Mr Joyce. M H.R., has. in tbe interests of the (.mtfM'bivy youths, 'placed himself in communication- with tbe Min.ster of t.a'l-vays on the subject. r>>qn a st'ng that the u=e of a . lfi.'piui. true'e should be ■ditboriel. and reminding the Minister that, there are sev rid such tracks at the Addiog'on railway workshop-, not in at present.