THE DILWORTH ESTATE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 6

THE DILWORTH ESTATE.

PART TO BE SOLD. AGRICULTURAL, SCHOOL ABANDONED. Part of the the Dilworth Kstate, which has come before public notice on several occasions, is to be offered for sale early in December. It will be remembered that one of the recent proposals in connection with the estate was that it should be converted into a soldier farm settlement. . The estate was originally formed as J the Dilworth School of Agriculture to ! provide a means of training orphan boys under the cere of that institution, in the best principles of agriculture, so that they might at the end iff their apprenticeship he able to take up farming Oa small areas of land, and yet make an independent adequate livelihood, with the minimum of capital which these intensive systems of fanning demand. The trustees thought at the time that if they were to do their duty l>v the boys, they must provide the best "training" it "■us possible to afford, but the venture «'as not successful, apparently because there were not enough boys willing to undertake the course.

The entire herd of pedigree rattle belonging to the school w also to be dispoeed of in the sale. This herd, which has made itself widely known, was formed by Mr. Primrose McConnell, an excellent jlrfge of the breed, and a thorough believer in the dual-purpose , M !C herd is of the DaVbalara and Colevile strain. A number of Young stock of bofh eexos will be sold, as well as high-class bulls.