SOLDIERS SONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22071, 29 March 1935, Page 15

SOLDIERS SONS

WORK ON THE LAND •, v i • • « FLOCK HOUSE TRAINING NEW CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME Details of a co-operative scheme, for training the sons of returned soldiers at Flock House, near Marton, panic before a meeting of the executive committee of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association yesterday. , t Correspondence from the New Zealand Sheepowners' Fund and the central committee in Wellington, dealing with the affairs of Flock House,., described the contributions, agreed on to provide agricultural training for eligible boys. It was stated that the patriotic societies were not able to use their funds for fit returned soldiers or their sons. To provide the amount of £43 re-> quired for eight months' training at 'l'lock House, the Sheepowners' Fund had- arranged with the Unemployment Board to pay a subsidy of £:!6 toward the expenses of this type of trainee, the balance of £7 being paid by the National War Funds Council. All that the fit returned soldiers would have to find for their sons would be the cost of a medical examination and items of equipment costing £4 14s Bd.

With regard to the sons of soldiers disabled in the war, who came within the scope of the use of Uhe funds cf patriotic societies, the Unemployment Board would provide a subsidy of £lB and the National War Funds Council would make £7 available. The balance would be provided by the. patriotic associations, and there would also be payment of travelling expenses and items af <»quipinent. The Slieepowriers' Fund .advised the associs.tion that the Unemployment Board had further informed Flock House that it was willing to enter a schemi) for subsidising the savings from the wages of the sons of New Zealand returned soldiers trained at Flock House in-order to assist the. best of the beys to commence a career on the land. Other particulars of the general co-operative scheme revealed that the bovs, after leaving Flock House, would be apprenticed to approved farmers for three years, or until the boys reached the ol 21 .-During their apprenticeship half ,tdeir wages would be held in trust lor later use. ' Mr.' E J. Phelan considered that the proposals were more attractive in view of the provisions made for the boys on the completion' of the period of training. Other speakers said only a few boys irould. lie involved as far as the association was concerned.

The principle of the co-operative schemtj was approved, and the claims board of the association was gi%en power to act in dealing with eligible bovs.