SONS OF N.Z. EX-SOLDIERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 153, 14 June 1932, Page 11

SONS OF N.Z. EX-SOLDIERS

FIVE BOYS FROM HAWKE’S BAY APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION Joint committees consisting of the Hawke’s Bay War Relief Association and Returned Soldiers’ Association have been set up throughout the province with a view to raising the funds necessary to provide free agricultural training at Flock House for sons of New Zealand ex-servicemen. The capacity of Flock House is 60 trainees per eight months, and as the overseas hoys will have completed their training by the end of the presen month, tho success of the scheme to train the sons of New Zealand ex-ser-vieornen now depends largely upon the number of bovs that can be sent to Flock House during the next few weeks.

A total of 763 overseas lads have been trained at Flock House, and have

been-drafted out as our New Zealand boys will be ujioii completion of their training to work for selected farmers Quite a number of the lads have leased, or have bought at reduced price small blocks of land from their eni ployers, and are now farming on their own account.

The trustees of Ffock House keep m direct touch with the lads, but the aftercare of them is also attended to by the Y.M.C.A. and the ladies of the Womens’ Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, which is a Dominion organisation with 170 branches and 10,(WO members

This is an exceptional opportunity for the sons of New Zealand ex-ser-vicemen to obtain free agricultural training, and prompt application foi admission to Flock House should be made in accordance with an advertise nient inviting applications which hat appeared in the “Herald.” as only fivboys have been allotted to Hawke’Bay.