A DAIRY SCHOOL. ITS PROPOSED SCOPE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1908, Page 2

A DAIRY SCHOOL. ITS PROPOSED SCOPE.

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. [By TELEGRArH.— SrKCiAL to The Post J FEILUING, This Day. On his reply to the Feilding deputation which pointed out the advantages of this^dibtrict as the site for the dairy school, the Hon. R. M'Nab thanked tho deputation for having enabled him to get so wide a view of this important part of the Dominion. He could not be expected to say right off just what tho final decision would bo with regard to the school, that decision would not be made until his report had been laid before the proper authorities which would bo in the course of a few days. Ho realised that his task was made much more difficult by the princely generosity which characterises iho offers made for pites in different parts of the Dominion. It was very pleasing to himself and the other members of the Government to see tho great interest that had boon tslkcn in the school— because it showed how' much the importance of the proposed step was recognised. It was possible that the school of instruction might develop into a peripatetic institution, but he would say nothing now that would prejudice the final result. He was ready to £>ay that no country had done what New Zeaiand had dono in regard 1y t.ho dairying industry. They could not see far enough ahead to say that the dairy schoo' would not fhift, but ho tho ight if a very .advisable experiment to establish this school. As the work developed and commanded a wider area, and controlled ii larger supply they could go in for the extremo form of education and oven take in bacteriological work, lie hoped to sec the day when the work would be rf such magnitude and so complete in it--, operations that he would be able to challenge tho work dono at any similar institution outside the United Kingdom a;td the United States of America, lv was propped to establish this experimental siation and school of instruction for the general benefit. At first a feeling wd» in tho minds of the ■oiheors that tho school should be for the managers ot dairy factories all over the country, to be in operation during the winter months, but as a result of making enquiries in other parts of the world «aey decided to have for their object the training of all who intended to devote themselves to the work of t managers of daily factories over a systematic course of in?truction, taking them from tho elementary part 01 their trade and giving them instruction such as would raise tho.t trade to tho dignity of a piofepsion. That could only bo done by applying themselves to the scientific side of tho question. The question, he pointed but with pleabuie, was not a party one, and the Government intended to do what was best tor tho State. He felt perfectly tor.tidcnt that wherever the school was placed it would mean an immense gain to the dairying industry. The Minister was thankcci for his courtesy and attendance.