FARMING IN N.Z.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19448, 23 October 1928, Page 10

FARMING IN N.Z.

PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS. A COURSE AT WAITAKI. (tSHXD ASSOCIATION —BT SLECTRIO TELZOAtPH —COPTJIIOHT.) LONDON, October 21. Twelve British .public school boys are going to New Zealand in December to become pupils at.the Waitaki. Boys' High School, Oanaaru, for two years to undergo a course which is designed principally to equip them for farming in New Zealand—Australian Press Association. THE SCHEME EXPLAINED. (?ntss ASSOCIATION rELSJBAV.) OAMARU, October 22. In connexion with the cablegram regarding 12 British public school boys coming to Waitaki Boys' High School, Mr Frank Milncr, M.A., Rector of Waitaki Bovs' High School, informs tho J'i-cm that the arrangement is for u limited number of boys about the ago of 17 to como to Waitaki for two years education on tho agricultural side, in order that they may familiarise themselves with the theoretical aspects of farming and with New Zealand conditions by' mixing with New Zealand boys, thus eliminating the risk of failing to acquire tho New Zealand atmosphere. . Tho scheme is devised by tho English Public Schools Employment Bureau. Waitaki has been chosen because it is • a chartered member of the English Head Masters' Conference Schools, and because it has an agricultural, side and • facilities for sucli boys. . Two i British boys •at Waitaki are • now doing very well. One has been • offered'a good position in Waikato. The boys .aro tinder the supervision of Mr ' Milncr and the Under-Secretary of the Immigration Department. : They are ' carefully tested physically 1 , • intellectually, and morally beforo leaving England. After the course hero: they have a . period of probation or apprenticeship on farms. l Some will liaye- finance, to •sable thorn to take up farms. - Canada thinks so much of the scheme • that:she gives free training and free 'stand. "Material from the English public schools is some of the flnost in the world," said Mr Milner. /