DREADNOUGHT TRAINING FARMS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13646, 1 February 1910, Page 7

DREADNOUGHT TRAINING FARMS.

IMMIGRANTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.

United Press AsK*i»tion— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 30. Tho Rev. R. L. Gwynne states that he is ready to send youths to the Dreadnought training farm, under the scheme of the Lord Mayor of Sydney. He has sixty of a better class ready to proceed to Sydney or Melbourne.

A scheme was initiated at Home some time ago for the establishment of a fund, half of which was to go towards founding the Kins Edward v v. Naval College and half for the acquiring of "Dreadnought" training farms in the colonies for young British immigrants. Great interest was displayed in the training farm movement by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, who assisted in the acquisition of suitable areas, and who received substantial monetary help from a number* of wealthy Australians. The trustees of the late Mr Samuel Hordern cave £10,000, Mr S- Hordern promising a further £10,000 if it was needed, another Australian firm tiving £10,000—£6000 for a New outh Wales farm and £4000 for one in Victoria. Mainly through the activity of tho Rev. R. L. Owynne, of the Kent Colonisation Society, £43.000 was in hand in December for the purpose of establishing Dreadnought farms, upon which it is intended to give young immigraifts an elementary training in agriculture-—sufficient to enable them to take up positions as farm hands at current rates of wages.