FLOCK HOUSE BOYS
ANNUAL REUNION,
(IT TBIKHUPH FRISS ASSOCIATION.)
PALMERSTON N., Thin Day. . The annual reunion of the Flock House boys, extending over three days, concluded yesterday. Of 25 boys"comprising (he first draft, 20 attended the function. The boys assembled at the estate by Sunday, when a united service was conducted. Monday was devoted to athlotic. sports, and yesterday to Soccer matches' and other athletic events. Addressing tho lads at luncheon, the Hon. E. Newman, chairman of the trustees' fund, said a hundred and fourteen boys had come out tinder the scheme. Fifty had gone out to farms in different .parts of the Dominion, earning wages and widening their experience preparatory to being assisted by the fund to commence operations on their own accounu. The speaker stressed the fact that tho whole scheme must bo made a commercial" success. Ho was satisfied they were working on right, lines. He exhorted the boys to be diligent, statingthe coping-stone of tho whole scheme was ths knowledge obtained about what became of each boy. Severe! letters received from farmers employing Flock House boys were read," showing tho progress i made by them and also the care taken to make a success of the work. ',
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 1, 1 July 1925, Page 9
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201FLOCK HOUSE BOYS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 1, 1 July 1925, Page 9
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