YOUTHS AS FARMERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10808, 31 December 1926, Page 5

YOUTHS AS FARMERS.

THE EMPIRE FELLOWSHIP. FAREWELL TO THE HOLDERS. (Per Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 30. The British Empire Fellowship Scholars were accorded a farewell by the Fellowship. . , Lord Riehard Neville, in a speech, recalled' that his first visit to New Zealand was made in Eairl Brassey s yacht '"Sunbeam." He hoped they would have a more comfortable voyage. He added that they would hear the National Anthem sung more frequently in New Zealand than in the Motherland, and would also find a splendid spirit of loyalty to British institutions. A Wellington telegram published recently stated: Finality has beenreached in negotiations between the Dominion Government and the .Fellowship of the British Empire Exhibition on the overseas settlement scholarships, and according to the latest cabled advice, 12 scholarship holders are leaving England on December dL by the lonio, due to arrive at Auckland on February 7. The youths, between 16 and 19 years of age, are to take np studies at the Ruakura State Farm. The scholarships allowed are out of the Fellowship fund! to enable lads to be sent to New Zealand to be trained as farmers, and for this purpose a first sum. of £IOOO has been ear-marked by the Fellowship The idea is that the boys should undertake a one year's course at Ruakura, after which the Government will do its best to place them with good farmers.