PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 22 December 1913, Page 5

PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL

To the Editor.

Sir—ln reference to proposed Junior A«kultTOal CpUegiate School in Hawera, it *»uld appear from your report .of Friday V meeting that I am opposed t6 the proposaj. Thk is not correct. What I am opposed to :in the meantime is eanctwtwng the appropriation of reveWfromiManaia Reserves to a Hawera ' School, seeing .that im ihe near futuroi it may be required for secondary educatk* m this district. I will be, obliged if you phbUsh my letter to Messrs. Dixon arid ODea, a copy of which is at<ached- T^aicPHIIIJPS. Manaia, December 22, ,1913. Messrs Dixon and ODea, Hawera. . ... -A#«ar^ your lettet^f l^th.inst.j to Collegiate School in Hawera, I n* «ret that I shall toe uriafole to zattend, ; your meeting to-night. lam strongly in favor pf providing every faciJifev and «ncburagement to advance f*ie mfertests «rf Mghet and technical education^ but I could apt support the proposal ito^'diTfirt revenue^ -horn.., Manaia^^ reserves to * «asist a: pSllege ;mv Jlawera, without ffirit consulting theVratepayers in this; I fully^nticTpate: that a. p^trict Btgh School li^^n the?neartf«tttre, esllanaia. There is an agri- ', 5n ; %se proximity •which co^d be utilised • for technical -training in "connection with the 'High School. In view of ;;thia, r l..c,o : uld.not;.support v ■that part of. Jthe 'resolut^n^pr^poang to divert revenue froni. ]yfanafa reserves. > <Signea) * : ■ Chairman '^.W'.C.'p P.S.-^I wfeh ypuTvWoposition erery ■ --«ucceßß.-^.i|c^r^;,S^:r^4:;:.:;;;;;!i