TIMIDITY OF IGNORANCE.
N.Z. BOYS AND FARMING. HIS EXCELLENCY'S REGRET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. Speaking at the opening of the Royal Show to-day, the Governor-General, in the■ cotirse of- ; his speech, said it 'was a' very painful thing to him to notice in going round the schools how few boys were going in for farming as a vocatiou. Instead they all appeared to be going into professions or into occupations' which would keep them in town. This, he felt, was due to terror" felt by boys of something of which-' they knew! nothing. Personally he :.felt that more ; instructional schools might lead more of; the boys of the Dominion on to the land, where the prosperity of the country really lay. There was, ho knew, a great opening for properly trained boy 6 on the land. It meant hard work, as everyone knew, but he could not feel that that would deter New Zealanders with the traditions of pioneers behind them.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 14
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