Farm cadets get an insight

Press, 4 January 1980, Page 6

Farm cadets get an insight

Twenty-four of the least experienced of the 40-odd new cadets who have been accepted for training in the North Canterbury Farm • Training Council’s farm cadet scheme attended a 10-day induction course that ended on late last month. During the course, •which was based on Burnham Military Camp, the cadets were given an introduction to the basics of farming, with neighbour-

ing farmers.’ facilities being used in the exercise. The council chairman, Mr R. M. Manson,, said during the course that it was serving a valuable purpose in that it was giving an identity to the scheme. The boys, he said, had' been most keen to learn. The ' latest intake of cadets was selected from about 60 applicants. The problem remains to get enough farm tutors to

have the boys on their farms, but Mr Manson said it was hoped that ail would be placed on farms by the end of March. Then, according to the field officer for the scheme, Mr W. T. Simpson, it is expected that there will be 140 boys in training under the fourvear course. Mr Frank Visser, who has completed a bachelor of agricultural science degree at Lincoln College

last year, was tutor to the induction course. He is seen in the accompanying photograph giving the boys an introduction to fencing at the college. Mr Manson is on the right