PROMOTING CHILD EMIGRATION
Appeal By Prince Results In Raising of £60,000 FAIRBRIDGE FARM SCHOOL SCHEME By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (“Times” Cable.) (Received February 14, 7 p.m.) London, February 14. As the result of an appeal by the Prince of Wales a fund has reached £60,000, from which the Child Emigration Society has purchased 1000 acres on Vancouver Island and established a Fairbridge Farm School similar to that in Western Australia. “The Times,” in a leader, says that child emigration is the only form of organised settlement in the Dominions which had survived the recent difficult years. NEW ZEALAND NEXT? New Schools Contemplated (Received February 16,12.10 a.m.) London, February 15. The Australian Press Association understands that the Child Emigration Society is contemplating the establishment of two more new schools, probably in Queensland and New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 7
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