OLD FLOCK HOUSE TRAINEES

Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 8

OLD FLOCK HOUSE TRAINEES

PURCHASE OF STATICH PROPERTY TRUSTEES EXTEND HELP [Per United Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., May 3. The trustees of Flock House announce the purchase from Dr H. Gri fallen, of Hamilton, of the Panetapu Station, an area of 2,316 acres of improved land eighteen miles south-east of Te Awamutu. The purchase has been made by a -selected group of twenty young men, all old Flock House boys, who have been in farm and station employment in New Zealand _ for a number of years, and have individually saved from their wages sums sufficient to enable them, with the trustees’ assistance, to make a start on the land for themselves. The young men will take delivery of the Iqnd and stock on June 1, and will proceed to subdivide the property into twenty or more farms, of which the greater number will be ready for individual occupation within twelve months. The land is described- as easy and of excellent quality. The trustees advise that the property was acquired at a most reasonable price, based on the present market conditions for produce. They intend to stand behind the new settlers till they are on their feet, and have no doubt whatever that the settlement will be most successful. This development will increase the number of old Flock House boys who have been enabled, by hard work and thrift, to make a successful start on the land to over fifty. Most probably the trustees will promote further similar group settlements as others of their young men arrive at "the same stage as the present selected group, j