BOYS FOR DOMINION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20084, 23 October 1928, Page 9

BOYS FOR DOMINION.

BRITISH SCHOLARS COMING. TWO YEARS AT WAITAKI. United Service. LONDON. Oct. 21. Twelve British public school boys are going to New Zealand in December to become pupils at tho Waitaki High School, Oaniaru. They will take a two years' course, designed principally to equip them for fanning in tho Dominion.

A Press Association telegram from Oaniaru says Mr. Frank Milner, rector of Waitaki High School, states that the arrangement referred to in the message is for a limited number of boys about 17 years old to go to Waitaki for two years' education on the agricultural side. The idea is to familiarise themselves with the theoretical aspects of farming and New Zealand conditions by mixing with New Zealand boys and thus eliminate trouble through failure to acquire the New Zealand atmosphere. The scheme was devised by the English Public Schools Employment Bureau and Waitaki has been chosen because it. is a chartered unit of the English Headmasters' Conference Schools and because it has the agricultural side and facilities for such boys. Two British boys at Waitaki now are doing very well. One has been offered a good position in the Waikato. The boys are under the supervision of Mr. Milner and the Under-Secretary of the Immigration Department. They are carefully tested physically, intellectually and morally before they leave England. After a course at Waitaki they will have a period of probation or apprenticeship on farms. Some will have finance to enable fhem to take up farms. . Canada thinks so much of the scheme that it gives free training and free land. "The material from the English schools is some of the finest in the world," said Mr. Milner.