PLENTY OF PLUCK

Evening Post, Volume 105, Issue 4, 6 January 1928, Page 10

PLENTY OF PLUCK

A striking example of grit and selfsacrifice on tlic part of a public school boy who came to New Zealand some two years ago, recently came under the notice of a representative of the '' King Country Chronicle." Owing to the war his father fell on eVil days in the Mother Country. His college career was cut short, and he came to New Zealand to learn farming. He was willing, intelligent, and put his whole soul into his work, and out of his small salary managed to send his people a substantial sum in the first eighteen months. He eventually obtained a situation on a largo sheep run in the King Country, it being one of his ambitions to learn all about this branch of farming. Conditions with-his people at Home became worse, and he sacrificed his ambition aud took a situation on a dairy farm in the Waikato, whore the wages were higher, bis sole object being to help his people still further. The young man is now working sixteen hours a day, and sacrificing his prospects for the future. If New Zealand can obtain a few hundred young men of this stamp from Britain they arc going to bo ono of the country's most valuable assets. ' ' '