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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18428, 8 July 1925, Page 10

Our London correspondent, writing on June 3rd, mentioned that forty-nine British public schoolboys of splendid type left Liverpool on May . 30th for New Zealand by the Rimutaka. under the oversea settlement schelne which exists between the Home and.'the New Zealand Governments. This is the largest party of British public schoolboys that has yet departed for overseas. Colleges in all parts of the British Isles have been drawn upon, including St. Paul's School (London), "Wellington College, Glasgow Academy, Duhgannon Royal School, and Dulwich College. The boys will all take up farming occupations in New Zealand, being guaranteed by the New Zealand Government excellent positions with selected fanners at good wages. Among the assisted emigrants who left Liverpool for New Zealand are an Irishman, his wife, and a family of thirteen children. The youngest members of the family are twins, 21 months old, and the eldest, a girl, who is going out as a domestic servant, is 19. ' The father of the family is a farmer, aged 37, who has been guaranteed a good farming position in the Dominion. It is pointed out that under the scheme of assisted passages existing between the British Government and the Dominion, this family is able to proceed to New Zealand at a total passage cost of £22. Otherwise the cost of transit .vvculd be £379.