TELEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12165, 13 February 1908, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

THE DAIRY -SCHOOL.'SPEECH BY~THE HON. R. ! McNAB. ! Hawera, February 12. The Hod. R. McNab left this morning for New Plymouth, after inspecting tlie sites at Havvera offering for the dairy school. Trie Minister said Uawera's claimf would be considered. Yesterday Mr McNab was driven round the district, and visited various dairy factories. He was entertained at^luncb at Kaupokonm. Speaking there, he referred with pleasure to the great expansion of the dairy industry. The time had come, he said, when New Zealand must cease copying and find by scientific research that whir.li is adaptable to (her own conditions. The dairy school was not to take the place of the technical schools in small centres. What was proposed was that the Agricultural Depart-, meat's- institution would virtually be a university divided into two departments, namely, scientific research and instructional. What the university was to the medical Jstudent, the law student, and the clerical studeufc, would the dairy university be to the farmer's sod, and it would raise his occupation to the status of a profession in the highest sense of the^term.