WORK UPON THE LAND.
TOWN BOYS' RELUCTANCE. EXPERIENCE OF HEADMASTER. [by telegraph.—own correspondent ) NEW PLYMOUTH. Sunday. The need for some plan of settling boys on the land was emphasised by Mr. W. H. Moves, headmaster of the New Plymouth Roys' High School, in an address to the N'orth Taranaki executive of the Farmers Union at the week-end. .-\fter outlining the history of the Opaki lieserve fund, Mr. Moves referred to problems of training boys for the land. On the motion of the president, Mr. H. E. Rlyde, (lie executive carried a resohit ion that part of the Opaki lieserve fund should be 'devoted to scholarships in agriculture a( New Plymouth High School for country scholars outside a radius of 20 miles from New Plymouth. Last year, said Mr. Moves. 12 boys from his school had gone on to farms. Every one of them was the son of a farmer. The future of those boys was assured. On the other hand, he could not get town boys to go on the land. Many applications for boys had come to him from fanners in the past six months, but town toys could not be persuaded to take tin fanning. He said he thought a deterrent was lack of capital and no prospect of the lads owning their own farms.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20669, 15 September 1930, Page 11
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