The School of Forestry.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20200, 31 March 1931, Page 8

The School of Forestry.

We print to-day a resolution adopted by the Board of Governors of Canterbury College and a statement by the chairjuan, -which it is to be hoped will opd the unpleasant misunderstanding over the Dominion School of Forestry. It is regrettable that it should have particularly regrettable because it Qcours over what was to be •welcomed as itself the settlement of a long vexed controversy, whether Canterbury or Auckland had the better claim to the' School, It may also be regretted that this public dispute follows two private conferences, not because they should have been public, but because such .disputes are the more uqcojnfortable when they break out after and in spite of the privacy whioh seeks to avoid them; and it is a pity, lastly, that the Minister; with whom the first of these - agreed to leave the decision, delayed' go long in. announcing % Jong fßQHgfc perhaps, fqf some of the spirit, of agreeioent to evaporate. As fo? spn'a charge" of a breach of faith ag'ainsfc Canterbury College, that* is the least of all to -be regretted, beeause it enable Colonel Smith to. say in the plainest, most unhesitating way that "the question of the amalgamation at "the staffs o£ the two Colleges was << never mentioned or considered by this " Board," that at the conference which agreed to , accept the Minister's docision "ti« question of any rearrange"Vent of the staffs was never men- " tioned'« , by either College," and that. " the \only question" was the establishment—or location—of the' Dominion School. '