FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19050, 22 June 1925, Page 13

FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME.

APPRECIATION IN ENGLAND. " SPLENDID UNDERTAKING." [fbojc our own correspondent.] LONDON. May 20. 31 r. F. W. Ivoy, secretary of the New Zealand Sheepowners' Fund farm training scheme, is meeting with a great deal of publicity on his present tour through Devonshire and Cornwall, where he is making known the Flock House schemo Following his address, ho was generally asked numerous questions. At Redruth, Mr. C. Lylc, who was in tho audience, referred to the enterprise as a grand scheme, and a noble ideal on the part of the sheepowners of New Zealand. He thought that tho proposal should receive unanimous support because things were bad in Cornwall, and a great difficulty would arise as to what to do with the boys. "Let us support the scheme in every way," said Mr. Lyle. "I think the benefits should also be extended to the sons of miners and others. It is much better than idling on the dole." Following Mr. Ivo/s address.at Exeter, Mr. J. F. Young, secretary of the Devon Education Committee, said they would wish to do what they cculd to assist the scheme, while Mrs. Phillips, exMayor of Honiton, spoke of the undertaking as a splendid one. She said she was extremely glad that it was contemplated to bring girls into it. Sir James Allen is sending a personal gift to Flock House. It takes the form of a neat silver cup which is to be competed for bv the boy shots at this farm training centre. The cup, suitably, inscribed, is attracting considerable attention in the window of New Zealand House, It will be forwarded to the Dominion at an early date.