FARMERS IN EMBRYO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 11

FARMERS IN EMBRYO

Flock House’s Good Work TRAINEES IN DEMAND Excellent reports of the progress the sons of ex-soldiers are making at Flock House were received by the executive of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association last evening. It was decided to forward a letter of congratulation to tiie Flock House Committee. “You will remember,” wrote Mr. A. O. Leach, secretary of the Wellington Flock House Committee, “that the maximum capacity per annum of Flock House is 90 boys, and I am sure that your committee will be pleased to know that 87 New Zealand soldiers’ sous will have been admitted to Flock House on or before March 31 last; and that to date 24 lads have been placed in employment under what we regard as quite advantageous conditions. In view of the very difficult conditions confronting tiie farming community generally, the value of the training that our soldiers’ sons are receiving at Flock House cau, I think, be best exemplified by telling you that the trustees of Flock House are not experiencing the slightest difficulty in placing their trainees with selected fanners; in fact, the supply is not equal to the demand.” The president, Mr. A. Cowles, said that the principal of Flock House, Colonel G. 0. Powles, was doing more than training tiie boys to be farmers; he was making men of . them. To send a boy to Flock House was as good as sending him to one of the colleges. “I do hope the Government, embarrassed as they are,” he said, “will not stint the money to keep Flock House going. It is one of the best bits of constructive work we are doing. This and the health camps are two institutions where we are heading off trouble at its base.”