BOYS FOR THE LAND
ARRIVALS FROM ENGLAND SALVATION ARMY PARTY Thirty boys, whose ages ranged from 10 to 19 years of age, arrived at Wellington from Southampton on Tuesday under the Salvation Army’s farm settlement immigration scheme. Later the party left by the afternoon northbound express, e n route to the Army’s training farm at Putaruru. There they 7 will undergo a course in the elementary principles of farming, ranging from .10 to .12 weeks, after which they will be drafted out to private employment as ’opportunities present themselves.
The Army’s scheme of inducing boys to tak© up careers on tlie land is very similar to the Flock House scheme, and the present quota brings the total number brought out to Now Zealand under their scheme to 734.
A Salvation Army Officer, who met the boys on their arrival, said tli e boys appeared well, up to the average and on first appearances he was very impressed with them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 January 1930, Page 6
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