Young Migrants Training in Victoria
BOYS LEARNING FARMING SIDNEY, June 0. , I Women who are constantly complain- ’ ing about the shortage of domestics may derive some satisfaction from the news that girl migrants arriving at the , Northcote farm school at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, are to be trained particularly as country domestic workers. When the girls reach 14 or 15, end as soon as there arc sufficient number*, a special domestic training centre will be established at the farm. At this centre the girls will be taught dressmaking and laundry work, and will be given a general home training under special teachers. In two year*’ lime it is expected that the farm will be housing the maximum number of migrants, 260. Although the first batch of girls has just arrived, a number of boy* hav* been at the farm since last July and I they are still keen about their fnturs
as farmers in Australia. The eldest boy is 14, and ho still has two years of farm life ahead of him before he goes out in to real Australian life as th* pioneer of the school.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 154, 2 July 1938, Page 13
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