BOYS ON FARMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 12

BOYS ON FARMS

THEIR WELFARE WATCHED A USEFUL SOCIAL WORK "Dominion” Special. Masterton, March 26. An insight into a very extensive social work recently by the Women’s Division of the New Zealand • Farmers’ Union was given by Mr. CC. Jackson (provincial president) at today’s meeting of the branch of the union. The meeting was discussing the employment of immigrant farm labourers, especially the boys brought out under the various schemes at present in opeiation, and the opinion was expressed by Mr. H. Evans that many farmers would need to treat the boys better than they had been doing if they wanted to make good settlers of them. He cited one or two cases. It was entirely unfair, he said, the way some of the bovs had been treated. The president stated that something was no wbeing done to keep an eye on the welfare of the boys when they were billeted out on farms. The women’s Division had taken the matter up. the bovs who had passed through Flock House being the first to receive their attention. The name and address of everv boy who had passed through the ho’’se had been gathered, and the wives of members of the union had been aske-’ to make inquiries in the various districts where these boys were working and do anything they could to help them along by finding suitable friends and occasional amusements for them. As the movement grew, said the chairman. the Women’s Division would extend' their activities to provide for every boy and girl who came out from England.