Former principal questions Taihape Area School s 13ha farm transfer
15 Mar, 2021 09:48 PM
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Taihape locals pitched in to buy and set up a 13-hectare farm for students 30 years ago. Photo / RNZ
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By Phil Pennington for RNZ
How do officials in Wellington come to take a small farm off a struggling school in Taihape, when they said they wouldn t sell it if the children still used it?
The local MP, and the former principal and school board chair, all say it amounts to the government stealing the farm from the town.
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The college was closed in 2004.
The Education Ministry's sale of Taihape Area School's educational farm asset to put into the Treaty settlements landbank has divided a community and raised issues over the legality of the move.