FLOCK HOUSE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 November 1930, Page 10

FLOCK HOUSE

HSKESSTANNUAL REPORT The report on the operations of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgement of Debt to British Seamen Fund (Flock House) to bo presented to the annual meeting at Palmerston North on Friday expresses thanks to the various patriotic associations .throughout, the Dominion and to the institutions ill Great Britain interested in the welfare of Seamen for the careful and sympathetic manner in which they have assisted the Fund in the investigation of applications and disbursement of funds. As is well known, trainers must primarily be sons or daughters of British seamen who lost their hve3 or became incapacitated as the result of injuries received at sea: during the war. They must he of good character, intelligent and healthy and with a genuine desire for life in the country. To date 575 hoys and 128 girls have arrived in New Zealand. Up to' the present, seven incapacitated fathers with their wives, 27 widowed mothers, 32 sisters and 12 younger brothers, of Flock House trainees have also become established in New Zealand. 518 boys and 115 girls, having completed their initial training at Flock House Station and Girls’ Flock House, have been placed in employment in various parts of the Dominion'. A considerable number of the young people make weekly allotments from their wages to their widowed mothers in England, and these amounts are regularly paid from the funds in London. Thirteen Flock House girls and ten Flock House boys have married and settled down in their own establishments. During the year trustees had several unimproved and partly improved large areas of land under consideration with a view to group settlement of the older youths, who had accumulated sufficient" savings to enable them to make a start for themselves.