ON THE FARMER'S SHOULDERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 3

ON THE FARMER'S SHOULDERS.

THE TRAINING OF TOWN BOYS. At; Wednesday's meeting of the Canterbury A'; and P. Association, a letter was received from the • director of the Technical. College (telegraphs our Christchurch correspondent) asking that the Association's contribution for the year should bo paid as soon as possible, so that the subsidy granted by the Government might be collectcd. Tho chairman (Mr. Murphy) explained that thero was a plot of land in connection with the school where boys could learn Boniething about plants and • tho rudiments' of agriculture.' The,school was doing excellent work. ' Mr. C. P. Hiigonin said it was extraordinary that tlie technical education of town children should have to be paid for by tho agricultural and pastoral industries; There was every inducement for boys to go to tho country to learn farming, and they would get more practical knowledge there among farmers than at a technical school. The Chairman replied. that the Technical College instruction was for young ;boys. • Mr! ,C. H!'Elisor, said it was a very useful thing-to' train town' : b'oys for country work. Throughout the present Conciliation Board proceedings the tolvn hoy liad been held up 'as, useless, and any step that,"taught him something of country,, life was a good ona. ;