THE DAIRY SCHOOL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8536, 17 March 1908, Page 8

THE DAIRY SCHOOL

INDIGNATION AT- LEVIN. ] MEETING OF THE BOROUGH j COUNCIL. i (Special to " Standard.") LEVIN,. This Day. At the mooting of the .borough Council last evening, the Mayor -risicrrcd to the dairy school, lie said the Council would have soon that- .the Government had decided that the dairy school should be established in Palmcrston North, and he had been requested by a number of the leading residents of Levin to call a mass mooting on the subject on Saturday night. He understood feeling was running , rather high, and he expected some rather strongly-v/orded resolution!) would bo passe J. It would be necessary to have the meeting- in the open air. as there was no hall in the town large enough to hold the people who would be present. In his opinion, based on what he had learned of dairying during the years lie had been connected with ii, there was only one really suitable site, and that was the State i'arm. He felt it. was his duty to move a resolution to (ho effect that this Council place on record its sincere regret that the Government has not seen its way clear to establish the. dairy school on the State Farm. and records its emphatic conviction ih.it the reasons advanced by the Minister in' passing the Levin site arc neither weischiy nor convincing-, it having been siafid on several occasions that the necossm-y accommodation for students would iie provided by private speculators at Levin should necessity arise. Continuing , , the Mayor said they couM not well pass a case oi' this kind. Tli.' Government, evidently thought this <•)< <> torato was politically safe, but it. ivas time to show them thai it was not so. He felt sine every resident of the district would rosent such reasons as Minister h:id given for fixing the site at Palmorston. and thov would lo*. il be

seen how they felt, about it. Mr MrNab had got i.t into his head that the school should be established on n rninrtrr of an acre of land, but councillors had made careful enquiries, and had read up the subject, with the result thai they had found that what had been stated about such schools being on a small piece of ground was in no way borne out. All American schools were established on very largo areas. The resolution was supported by Cm. McLeavey and Prouso, and was carried unanimously. Up to noon to-day no definite arrangements had been made regarding the proposed mass meeting.