CHILD EMIGRATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 11

CHILD EMIGRATION

THE FAIRBRIDGE SYSTEM PRINCE OF WALES' APPEAL [from our own correspondent] LONDON, June '2B The Prince of Wales has launched a,n apical for £IOO,OOO to establish in the British Empire more schools on the model of the Fair bridge Farm School in Western Australia. The appeal is organised by the Child Emigration Society and the Prince has given £IOOO to head the subscription list. "l'his scheme," said the Prince, "makes a definite contribution to tho solution of the problem, the great problem, of unemployment. 1 have seen as much as many of you have of the conditions of unemployment and of the unemployed in the last years, and to alleviate those conditions is one of the most valuable services which we can render to this country at the present time. For this reason alone I am glad to ask your assistance to secure the extension of the Fairbridge scheiiuv "By sending out these selected children and training them fear useful careers in the land which ia +o be their home, the system should I® capable of providing a steady flow of good citizens to the Dominions and to the colonies. The days when we could have been accused of regarding these new countries as a useful dumping ground for the inefficient or for tho black sheep of the family anß, fortunately, long past. "There is no danger of the establishment of a new farm school adding to the present unemployment problem in Canada, Australia, or elsewhere, because the children would remain :tn the farm school for five years, and, consequently, it would be five years before any of the children would be ready to seek employment, and during those years the Farm School itself would -be giving a certain amount of wo:rk in that area. In fact, I think this is the right time to start, so that 'the training of the first children will be completed by the time, let us hope, that prosperity is returning." Not only did the Prince of Wales give the appeal a good start, but an anonymous contributor paid for four pages of the Times as a special advertisement. On the first page is a large photograph of the Printe and the full text of his appeal speech is given in large spaced type.