EMPIRE MIGRATION
FARM SCHOOLS FOR YOUNG(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON June 14. The Prince of Wales gave a cheque when he opened the Child Emigration Society's appeal for £IOO,OOO to esfabllsh three Empire farm schools similar to the Fairbridge schools in Western Australia. He expressed the opinion that the system of training boys for farm work and girls for domestic duties have proved the only form of migration able to function in the depression years. The advisability., of its extension throughout the Empire »was unchallenged. The. British .Government was financially assisting Canada, which had granted permission for the next schoolin British Columbia. ' ;
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Northern Advocate, 15 June 1934, Page 5
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101EMPIRE MIGRATION Northern Advocate, 15 June 1934, Page 5
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