NO APPEAL
SETTLING ON LAND
EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 19According to the "Vocational Officer, Mr. Conly, settling on the land holds no appeal for Otago youths. "In fact," he said, "one wonders whether the next generation of farmers will come from the North Island."
Mr. Conly considered that farmers were partly to blame,; since'they wefe regularly announcing that theirs was a hopeless, bankrupt calling, so that parents were loath to allow their sons to enter such a calling.
Mr. Conly pq^nted to the difference in Auckland, where indenture and compulsory part-saving of wages enabled the trainee to get sufficient capital to own a farm eventually. He stated that a northern committee had placed 2200 boys in farm work. "Prospective ownership seems to be the crux of the problem," he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 17
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134NO APPEAL Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 17
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