SCIENTIFIC TRAINING.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 9 August 1932, Page 7

SCIENTIFIC TRAINING.

YOUTHS PLACED ON FARMS. [THE PRESS Special Service.] DUNEDIN, August 8. Mr A. E. Ansell, M.P., who ha« been appointed by the Government to assist in placing boys in employment, says that opportunities in industries arc comparatively small, and it would therefore seem that practically the only avenue for finding them employment is on farms. The idea is not to allow these boys to become simply farm labourers, but to give them opportunities to educate themselves in agricultural pursuits so that they' may be able to take up land themselves in due course. With this object in view Mr Ansell and Mr S. G. Smith have arranged that for two months in each year tho boys will bo enabled to take a course of scientific training at one of the agricultural colleges or similar institutions in tho Dominion. This training will be provided free of cost to the boys. The project has been favourably received iu all centres, and in the South Island the following arrangements have been made:—Lincoln College to take 50 boys, Bangiora High School 40, Waitaki High School 20, and the Southland Boys' High School 25. Negotiations are being continued to extend this scientific training to high schools in other centres.