FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME
MOVE FOR CONTINUATION
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DTJNEDIN, This Day. Speaking at a meeting on Empire settlement, Sir James Alien, M.L.C., j paid a tribute to the work done in New Zealand by the Church of England, the Salvation Army, and thoso responsible for the Flock House movement. The Flock House scheme had been an extraordinary success, said Sir James, and those brought out under it were now at a stage when they were going to take up farms of their own. This movement waa coming to an end, however. The boys' scheme would end this year, and the girls' scheme would gradually die out. He expected that a recommuedation would be made to the Government that Flock House should bo continued, and that New Zealand boys should bo trained and allotted to farms afterwards, or that boys other than the sons of those who were killed or were damaged during the war should be brought out from Home. These wore first-class schemes for setting younger people oa land,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 8
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175FLOCK HOUSE SCHEME Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 8
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