VETERINARY SCHOOL

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 3

VETERINARY SCHOOL

Establishment Not Favoured (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 20. There was a substantial majority against a remit put forward at the conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union to-day to set up a veterinary school in New Zealand to be financed by the sheep and dairy industries, subsidised by the Government and established and administered by the University of New Zealand. Mr A. P. O'Shea. Dominion secretary, giving the views of the Dominion executive, said that such a scheme would be uneconomic. It would cost £5OOO a year to run, against £lOOO now expended on sending students to Sydney. When the full New Zealand requirements were met, the estimated annual replacement rate would be eight, making the overhead out of all proportion. The conference decided to protest, against Government encouragement of setting up of a factory to make synthetic textile fabrics in New Zealand. It asked the Dominion executive to investigate the importation of rayon and synthetic fibre as certain classes of those materials, owing to the cheap cost of manufacture and low duty, might be a serious menace in competition with woollen goods. The executive was also asked to investigate the price to the consumer of the finished woollen article in relation to the cost of raw material. The conference set up a committee to confer with the Meat Board and the Electoral College on a co-operative meat works proposal. The members arc Messrs R. R. Blade (Ahuroa), E. Palliser <Waikato). D. Brown (Drummond). W. J. Thomas (Carterton). L. J. Daniell (Masterton). D. G. Gordon (Taihape), and C. D. Dickie (Hawera). It was unanimously resolved to make the utmost productive effort to assist in overcoming the world food shortage. A remit requesting the Government to amend the law to provide for the restoration of capital punishment was adopted. Mr T. C. Brash, who is Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, was the only recorded dissentient.