STATE FARMS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18101, 17 June 1924, Page 9

STATE FARMS.

ERNMENT'S POLICY.

lIAL TO "Tsa PHSSS.") • ' , ;;... TORCABGILL, June 16. or of the; future policy of. lent in regard ,to State: farms is contained in a ed\ by' tho Southland •jthe Minister of Agriculch Mr Nosworthy . replies iaentations made to him iercargiil; recently, regardiblishment of a Red Poll ph&viWintbn experimental ays^thei.Minister,,'' really reryJmuch larger question sifip; :jxovi6ion , of a dairy! ■ihatitoiestablish•■;a Herd: tie'provision of the neccsjtildings, arid at least tfs.J:converting placji £&jnn as distinct from, an< demonstration : area; iont has been for .some jiling with the question; of. considered that, yaicq made- -in farming srally and with the c'stab a "Departmental instructs; staff ed '■' by well-qualified Taiue of State farms to fcy will become greatly leshl this, in. view, the: farms in Hawke's Bay, and at r'oted principally to fruithorticulture, have been i the great bulk of tha area of Te Kauwhati as been handed over to Apartment for settlement.. ~ the Moumahaki State lg, subdivided for settle-

ment, it. being proposed that the revenue accruing from the rentals shall be expended'in instructional and expeii mental work in the Wanganui and .West-< Coast area. I shall be glad to cary on as long as necessary the experimental- and demonstration work

being Jo.ne at the,Winton area. It is felt'that from the point of view of expenditure of public funds a greater measure of benefit, can be conferred jiport' the farming community in Southland by the maintenance of the present system.of general/ instruction by means pf"";travelling instructors and "the extension, of this as financial and staff conditions permit than can bo derived i by the establishment of a State farm." ;, Jn expressing his preference for this I system of instruction the Minister •adds'that/the members of the Winton A. 1 and P. Association should consider the question of themselves financing and establishing a farm to be subsidised by the on, broadly tho same lines that exist in 'connexion .with the present subsidised dairy farms, at Stratford and Manaia, in Taranaki. ;