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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 7

ONE OF THE FINEST PLACES IN THE WORLD BOYS’ OPINION OF FLOCK HOUSE. “As -I am writing this letter, I am nicely settled down in my new home here, which is absolutely posh,’ wrote a Flock House boy to his parents in England. “We arrived in .Wellington on Friday, and slept on the boat that night, and proceeded to Flock House on the following morning, but we enjoyed ourselves in Wellington on Friday night. After we got settled with tho Customs officer, we were told that the New Zealand Government had invited us to the House of Parliament for a look round. Well, we all went in and sat in the seats where the M.P.s sit, and every M.P. made a speech to us and welcomed us to the new land. We went up into the gallery after the speeches and listened to the members of Parliament having a debate, but the biggest surprise of the lot came when we were taken to the dining-room and had a good feed. “Well, I bet you are all eager to know what Flock House is like,” wrote another boy, “and don’t run away with the idea that I’m just saying it’s nice to stop you from worrying, because everything I write in these letters is going to be the honest truth. It is just fair to tell you the truth, so that’s a promise. Flock House is surely one of the finest places in the world for any boy, rich or poor.” Dozens of letters in similar strain were tabled yesterday at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Ac knowledgment of Debt to British >Ma men Fund. Many grateful letters have also been received by the trustees from parents in England, and good reports generally have come in from farmers who have taken British lads who have graduated through Flock Hov.se,