THE MINING SCHOOL.

Evening Star, Issue 12307, 23 September 1904, Page 8

THE MINING SCHOOL.

TO Tire EDITOR. —ln your leader of September 20 you ■ state, with reference to the meeting in supi ??* rt retention of the School of Mines in Dunedin, that provincialism was ; characteristic note, and that the Medi.cal Faculty of the Otago University was ‘ completely ignored. I would submit that two schools are not necessarily in op- ■ position. What concerns every citizen is - whether it is to the advantage of the State i to go to largo expense in equipping and • endowing a Mining School in Auckland, or 1 to maintain an already cxFtcnt school at ' far l«s cost. Surely, one should not be ac- ’ cased of paltry provincialism if one should 1 favor the latter course. Yiu assume that 1 the general medical opinion is against the 1 retention of the Shool of Mines in Dun--1 edin. I cannot speak officially, as the mat- ; t pr has never been before the Otago Medical Association, but I am voicing- the bpin--1 ion of other medical men when I sqy that ! the removal of the School of Mines” from Dunedin fhouhi be deplored, not merely ir ■ view of the good work achieved by” (he 1 school, but because it would be detrimental ■ to the best interests of the State.—l am ■ etc., 1 F. R. Rn.r.r. Vice-presi(l“"t Otago Medical 1 _ Association. 1 iSeptember 23.