FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 7

FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Boys To Go To Waitaki High

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LESSONS IK FARMING.

(United Service.) (Received 9 a.m.)

LONDON, October 21.

Twelve British public school boya are going to New Zealand in December to become pupils at the Waitaki Boys' High School at Oamaru, for a two-years' course, designed principally to equip them for farming in New Zealand.

POTENTIAL SETTLERS.

THE SCHEME OUTLINED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

OAMARU, this day.

In connection with the above cable regarding the twelve British public school boys coming to Waitaki Boys' High School, Mr. Frank Milner, the rector ,of Waitaki, informed the "Oamaru Mail" that the arrangement is for a limited number of boys of about the age of 17 to come to Waitaki for two years' education on the agricultural side in order to familiarise themselves with the theoretical aspects of farming and New Zealand conditions by mixing with New Zealand boys and thus eliminating trouble through failure to acquire the New Zealand atmosphere. The scheme was devised by the English Public Schools Employment Bureau and Waitaki has been chosen because it is a chartered member of the English Headmasters' Conference Schools and because it has the agricultural side and facilities for such boys. Two British boys at Waitaki now are doing very well. One has been offered a good position in the Waikato.

The hoys are under the supervision of Mr. Milner and the Under-Secretary of tHe Immigration Department. They are carefully tested physically, intellectually and morally before leaving England." After a course here they will have a period of probation or apprenticeship on farms. Some will have finance to enable them to take up farms.

Canada thinks so much of the scheme that it gives free training and free land. "The material from the English schools is some of the finest in the world," said Mr. Milner.