UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS.
FARM TRAINING SCHEME. r Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 19. Mr J. Connolly, M.P., has offered Cheviot House, the forty-roomed homestead on the Cheviot Hills Estate, free of rent for a year, together with a portion of the estate adjoining, to commence a farm training scheme for unemployed youths in Canterbury. Mr Connolly lias long interested himself in an endeavour to find some solution of the problem of unemployment among boys and youths. His offer is for a year only, but a renewal of the offer beyond this period is conditional only on, the success of the scheme.
Mr Connolly has discussed the scheme with the Christchurch committee dealing with the boys’ employment problem, and this committee nas supported the scheme and lias undertaken the preliminary organisation of it. Support for the project will be sought from local bodies and other organisations throughout North and Mid-Can-terbury. The hope is that the scheme will develop on. tho lines of Flock House and that it may be partly, if not wholly, self-supporting.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 69, 20 February 1932, Page 8
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172UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 69, 20 February 1932, Page 8
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