STATE DAIRY SCHOOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2862, 20 January 1909, Page 11

STATE DAIRY SCHOOL.

PROSPECTS OF ESTABLISHMENT. {Fboh Chra Own Coebespondent.) WELLINGTON, January 13. The dairy school about which such a fuss was made some time ago does not seem to be materialising. To-night's Post discussing the situation, says: — "Apparently the idea which was really at the base of the proposal was to establish ah institute where could be trained dairy experts and factory managers — such men, for instance, as are at intervals imported from abroad to fill the higher positions in the expert ranks of f3ie Department of Agriculture. It will be remembered that the ex-dairy commissioner (Mr J. A. Kinsella) was imported with the chief object of making him head of such a school. But he came and has gone, and the school has not yet arrived. Such an institution, however, would cost a good many thousands of pounds to establish, and quite a considerable sum to keep

j going. The number of students who ! would attend would naturally be strictly i limited, and the demand for those who J passed through. the course of instructions ' must be restricted. Presumably the Government has recognised that for the present at anyrate 't is far cheaper to import the few experts required than to turn them out of a costly institution at so many pounds per head. Present indications are that this is the view held by the Government. Tf any School of Agriculture is to be established it will probably be on quite different lines. A farm of considerable area, in which all lands of , farming operations would be undertaken, I where a man who intends to go on the ' land may attend for a course which will i ensure his being competent when he takes ! up a section to carry out the work of the I farm, and lefrain from making those mistakes which are the natural result of ignorance and inexperience — such a scheme may not eventuate for some time. But now indications are that the Dairy

School, which was the subject of so much controversy,, will not eventuate at all. i ___________

i ■ A Chinaman, a former resident of Napier, who left New Zealand about T5months ago on a. trip to his native land, returned to Wellington on Wednesday last by the Marania. He had married in China during his recent sojourn there, but on . learning that there was a poll tax on - Chinese of either sex he decided to leave his spouse in the East in the meanwhile. He was j permitted to land without payment or any j education test on being able to establish his identity. | The British Museum possesses a cup of ! almc3fc fabulous value. It is of gold and" " enamel, ia adorned with subjects from the life of St. Agnes, and cost £8000. The cup ' derives most of its interest and value from j the fact that it was given to Charles Vi j of France in "1391 by his uncle, Jean Duke 'of Berri. The cup passed afterwards into- ! the possession of the Kings of England from. Henry VI to James 11, who gave : it, in 1604, to Don Juan Selasco, Constable of Castile.