UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS
BRITISH CAMP SCHEME UNDERGRADUATES ASSIST (Received August 22, G. 5 p.m.) British Wireless HUG BY. Aug. 21 Several Cambridge undergraduates have voluntarily devoted six weeks of their vacation to organising and staffing a camp for 100 young unemployed men. The site for the camp and other facilities were provided by Lord Somers and the youths have been engaged in a variety ol useful occupations of a kind calculated not to deprive any man of employment. Useful hobbies also have been taught in the camp, interspersed with different fc ports. The experiment was designed to build character and self-discipline. It lias proved so successful that similar ••amps 611 a larger scale are likely to he organised in the future, in connection with the more ambitious voluntary schemes now in operation on behalf of the unemployed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 9
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