BOYS ON FARMS.
APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME,
ARRESTING DRIFT TO TOWNS
{by TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MARTON, Monday.
" This drift from the country to towns must be checked, and wo should support anything that will assist in solving the problem," said Mr. L. Hammond at a meeting of the Wellington provincial executive of the Farmers' Union to-day when a report from headquarters was received outlining an apprenticeship scheme for boys on farms.
The scheme provides that after a boy has had three months' probation on a farm his employer shall enter into a three years' contract with hint. Hours of work and home life conditions are also set out, while provision ; s made for settling boys later on land of their own in pumice or gum land aroas.
Members agreed that something would have to be done to get unemployed boys out of towns. The scheme was considered to be a good one, but it would have to be modified. Hard and fast rules would kill the scheme, but with certain alterations the idea was approved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20254, 14 May 1929, Page 11
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