FARMING PURSUITS
OTAGO BOYS NOT ATTRACTED ATTITUDE OF PARENTS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUXEDIN, Tuesday According to the vocational officer, Mr. Conly, settling on the land holds no appeal for Otago youths. "In fact," he said, "one wonders whether the next generation of farmers will come from the North Island." Mr. Conly considered that farmers were partly to blame, since they were regularly announcing that theirs was a hopeless, bankrupt calling, so that parents were loth to allow their sons to enter such a calling. Mr. Conly pointed to the difference in Auckland, where an indenture and a compulsory part-saving wages scheme enabled a trainee to get sufficient capital to own a farm. He stated that the northern committee had placed 2200 in farm work. "Prospective ownership seems the crux of the problem," he added.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23017, 20 April 1938, Page 15
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