FARM TRAINING CAMP
OPENED AT PENROSE ' (By Telegraph—Press Association:) ■ MASTERTON, February 11. The Wellington Unemployed Boys' i Committee's agricultural . training camp opened at Penrose today. Twenty-five boys are in camp at present, and several more are expected to arrive tomorrow. Those at present at the training farm arrived by train this morning and commenced work in the afternoon. They have been divided into four groups, three containing six boys and one seven. ■ • This afternoon one group was •-. engaged in poisoning rabbits, another in learning to drive ' horses, . and yet another in mixing cement. The fourth group, which is being taught milking; remained in camp to do odd jobs. The Assistant Director-General of Agriculture visited the camp in the afternoon and gave an address on general topics relative to farm life. '
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Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 4
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130FARM TRAINING CAMP Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 4
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