FLOCK HOUSE FUTURE

Evening Star, Issue 21878, 15 November 1934, Page 5

FLOCK HOUSE FUTURE

STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 14. If it is found impossible to keep Flock House fully engaged in training New Zealand’s soldier sons steps should be taken to obtain Imperial soldiers’ sons from Great Britain, preference being given to New Zealand hoys ” was a recommendation adopted by the annual meeting of subscribers to the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund. „ In a statement by Mr E. Newman, chairman of the board, which was read in his absence, he said that although sixty boys was the economic working minimum for the institution, which had staff and plant and accommodation for seventy boys, there were only thirty-five in residence now. Two questions frequently put to him weie: “ Why cannot Flock House be thrown open to any boy who wanted to learn farming? ” and “ Are you spending money donated in response to your appeal in 1918 for sailors dependents on other people. ... e desired to make the position of Flock House’s future clear. Until the trustees had fulfilled all their promises to British . seamen’s. dependents and their guardians in Britain the trustees could not expend anything outside the scope of the fund. It had been suggested that the institution should come under the British child immigration scheme now being'developed under the patronage ot the Prince of Wales. “At this stage I can say nothing except that the trustees agree that we cannot carry Flock House on as we are doing much longer without encroaching on the seamen s fund, and this we are unanimously opposed to.”