SALVATION ARMY FARM.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1930, Page 5

SALVATION ARMY FARM.

AMBITIOUS TRAINING SCHEME,

WOEIv THE ROYAL ROAD TO

SUCCESS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Following the recent visit of Commissioner Cunningham, Territorial leader of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, to the farm of the organisation at Putaruru, the announcement is made from Army headquarters here that big developments may shortly be expected which will put this venture of the organisation on a sounder financial footing and thus bear more of the cost of roaring, educating and fitting the hundred or so boys there to play their part in life worthily.

■Thc Commissioner outlines his .scheme as being in the direction of (improving the pasture lands as rapidly as possible. Half of the area, which is pumice, lias been cleared and is now carrying excellent rye and clover, affording good pasturage for a herd of cattle and 140 milking cows. lie also aims at establishing a herd of purebred Friesian cattle and a herd of milk strain Jerseys. A herd of purebred Berkshire pigs is also part of the stocking scheme. , The Commissioner says he found nearly a hundred fine boys ranging from six to sixteen years on the Farm, all being educated "and trained in agriculture. Thirty had just arrived from Home. “In speaking to them,” says the Commissioner, “I urged them co take their coats off, roll up their shirt sleeves and work, work, work, for that is the only royal road to success in life. 5 ’