FLOCK HOUSE BOYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 57, 6 February 1925, Page 4

FLOCK HOUSE BOYS.

ESCORT'S IMPRESSIONS. Mr P. Tully, secretary of Canterbury YMO.A., Kent, England, who accompanied the last batch of boys to arrive for training at Flock House was a guest of Wanganui Rotary Club this week. Mr Tully briefly referred to the scheme under which, thanks to the patriotic generosity of sheep farmers of New Zealand, sons of British seamen who fell in the Great War were being given a start in life. "From what I have seen at Flock House when I handed over my charges," said Mr Tully, "I cannot help feeling that this must be one of the beet and soundest emigration schemes ever devised. The boys selected are of a good type, and, under the fund so generously-provided for their benefit they are receiving a useful training in the technicalities and the every-day work of farming. And they are not only receiving that training "under ideal conditions, but they are receiving it with the guarantee that, subject only to their own worthiness, their future is assured." Mr Tully has spent a month in-New Zealand, a considerable portion of the time in the South Island, and he assured the Rotarians that it was difficult for him to voice his impressions of ''this really wonderful country." Apart from its natural beauties, which he had found a never-ending delight, the thing he had marvelled at most, perhaps, was the astounding progress that had been made in so short a time.