SCHOOL BOY FARMER
DETERMINATION TO MAKE GOOD
Some idea of how English schoolboys are faring on New Zealand farms under the junior immigration scheme was conveyed in a nujnber of letters received by the Farmers’ Union Executive and embodied in a report presented yesterday. Only one boy seems a little discontented; whereas all the other letters have a pleasing strain. “I am quite happy and satisfied with my position, which leaves nothing to be desired,” wrote one boy. Another stated: “I have every opportunity of learning all the different kinds of work to be done on a mixed farm. . . I hav.e learned to milk and to ride since I came here and can Ictok with pleasure on brown, sunburned hands and vastly increased arm muscles. . . The meals are excellent, and I have a comfortable little bedroom in the house. . . Mr. is a sympathetic and capable instructor.” “Where health is concerned,” ran another letter, “it is the ideal life. , . Shall run a Post Office savings bank account at the nearest town.” “He will make good,” remarked a member of the executive, “and seems to be made of the right stuff.” A summary of the letters sent in by the employers of the boys shows that the boys generally are applying themselves to their new task with the determination to make good.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 191, 8 May 1924, Page 8
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