SCHOOL OF FORESTRY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18232, 18 July 1921, Page 5

SCHOOL OF FORESTRY.

(Per Press Association.' WELLINGTON, July 17. The demonstration held by the Canterbury Progress League to-day to lay before the Acting Prime Minister (Sir Francis Bell) Canterbury’s claims to have a School of Forestry located in 'Christchurch elicited from Sir Francis some important statements. These were that as Commissioner of State Forests he had decided upon Canterbury College some time ago as the only college to which the school oould properly be attached, and that Canterbury was the most suitable district for the school: that since the matter had unexpectedly become a subject of controversy between different provinces, it must now be decided by Cabinet, and therefore he could not reiterate his opinion that the Government could not allow the University Senate to decide the matter; that the Prime Minister had consulted him by cable from Eng»land before replying to the Auckland cablegram upon the subject; that the question would be decided by Cabinet solely in the interests of the Dominion us a whole. It would be decided by vote of Cabinet without reference to politics, or whether one locality rather than another supported the present Government. He could promise as truly for Mr Massey as for himself that so long as they held office the question would be determined on these lines, and not upon the lines presented in what he might call 11 another place.”