CHEVIOT HOUSE OFFER.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20566, 7 June 1932, Page 8

CHEVIOT HOUSE OFFER.

STATEMENT BY MR CONNOLLY,

"If Christchurch is not prepared to do anything to further the scheme for establishing a farm-training centre for boys at the Cheviot Hills Estate, l intend to consider attempting something of the sort myself, even if only on a small scale," said Mr J. Connolly, M.P., to a representative of The Press last evening. In. a statement made some time ago, Mr Connolly said that although the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce had not approved his offer of tho homestead and some land of the estate for the purpose of training boys in farming, he would not in the meantime withdraw his proposition. He repeated last evening that the offer was still open. ''Throughout my election campaign, and afterward, 1 emphasiswd the imperative necessity for doing something, to train tho increasingly \-iTge num-' ber of unemployed youths," said Mr Connolly. "It is a great pity that something akin to.the Cheviot House scheme has not been put into operation in the South Island, and although it is a tall order to attempt something that Christchurch cannot do, I intend, failing action on the part ot others, to sec what I can achieve individually."