EXPERIMENTAL FARM.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13362, 2 March 1909, Page 8

EXPERIMENTAL FARM.

MH \V. C. nUCHA.XAX S OFFER.

(special to ••the piiess.") •" ' WKI UNOTON, M arc h 1. tf | Collie numtlLs ago Jlr \\* C "'* Buchanan. .M.P. for Wairarapa, offerwl J . , to give £5000 for the i>un-ha' o ol lend 'J ami £1000 lor stock, tor tho pJJS f of an experimental faruT $i lint the offer was not accepted by the ' J J Government. Tho proposal was" oonT ~,'. sidercd last week by the Wairarat* '= and l-.ast Coast A. antl l>: Society. ;"< -Mr Uuchanan said the offer still hold' 1 good, and ho urged that if n farm was"-* on sennd btwini-es lines, there would be little or no loss. If ' tho Govornnu'iit was afrnid of Iwa, ii ? coiil«l -caeily limit tin- expenditure, and "* so control the lost?. Money certainly • had been lost at the Lorin farm, an<l lii« afrnid the total lose had never '* been made public, but surely if the ■ ■Government took his offer u;> and ap." * pointed a practical and' capable inaaa. !" ger, an experimental farm carried tin "' on proper business lines could be made § to pay, or at least could bn run with- '"*' out excessive loss. The Wairarapa dis-'3 trict was entitled to cnll uixjn the Go- t vernment for a.n experimental farm, --4 even though h email loa; might follow. ;5 Could any subsidy bo more profitably "Jj'i urn! thnn to assist the scheme under 4. discussion? $j It was decided to again approach the "f 8 Government on the subject, and ask it.;!* to accept Mr Buchanan's offer. "S*