FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 September 1925, Page 8

FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME.

> EXTENDED TO GIRLS. PIFTY A YEAR. HOME NEAR PALMERSTON. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Arrangements have been made for extending to girls the benefits of the New Zealand sheepowners' acknowledgment of their debt to the British Seamen's Fund, aud to bring out to the Dominion a number of girls, who will be trained for work on the land. The trustees of the fund are purchasing a property near Palmerston North for conversion into an establishment like Flock House. Control of the scheme will be undertaken by the Y.W.C.A., which will have the trustees of the fund behind it in a financial and advisory capacity. Arrangements at this end were made yesterday by the Hon. Edward Newman (chairman of directors of the fund) and Mr. T. R. Lees (managing director) during a visit to Christchurch. So far as is possible the girls selected will be sisters of boys already chosen for training at Flock House. They will be given six months' training in such things as domestic work, milking, gardening, bee keeping and poultry farming. Then they will be placed as mothers' helps, if possible, on farms and stations where their brothers are apprenticed. The idea is to train the girls that when the times comes for the boys to start on their own account the girls can start with them as partners < receiving from the trustees of the fund assistance similar to that given to the boys; or, if the girls marry they will be efficient farm wives. It is proposed to start the scheme by bringing otit fifty girls a year.