ADVICE TO YOUTH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21617, 9 October 1933, Page 12

ADVICE TO YOUTH

Sir, —May I have space for an appeal to young men. Look here, you youngsters, opportunity v knocks at your door and at yours alone at present—even if you have no money. Thero is Government leasehold (60 years) property to bo had for £6 or so a year. I know, because we, thinking of the future for our small 6ons, have recently secured 200 odd acres—good land, easily brought in. Now, if you begin young enough, are not afraid of hard work, refrain from smoking, are endowed with the traditional British pluck, and like the work, you could have a payable farm of your own by tho time you are 30. It is possible and has been done —no loans either. Find an up-to-date farmer or poultry man for part of the timo if you like, put in an apprenticeship, taking a live interest in everything. Above all do it thoroughly so that the boss will trust yon. Such will command a high wage. Show somo initiative and intelligence, for farming now-a-days is a .science—and an interesting one. The fai . ier will be only too pleased to lend you journals, etc., which you can study in the evenings. More work, you say, but if you are interested you won't mind. A word of warning here is necessary. Don't impose your ideas on the farmer. Remember you are there to do what your boss wants.' You can store ua for future use your ideas. When you have saved £2OO you will be in a position to look round for a place of your own. You will have to build a shack, buy a plough and good horses, weaned calves, a little fencing, manure and seed to make a beginning, or, perhaps, you may begin with poultry, growing most of the feed for tho fowls. Yo.u can do day work several days a week for neighbours, and quite a lot of money is to bo made during the harvest. Don't get married before you are in a position to keep a wife and family, and take Sunday and Saturday afternoon off for social life and recreation. What an entirely satisfactory consummation to one's labours to seo a wilderness turned into smiling pastures! You can do this if you start young enough. Let not the years slip by in "blind alley" occupations. Nothing Without Laboub..