YOUNG MIGRANTS
TRAINING IN VICTORIA BOYS LEARNING FARMING [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, June 9 Women who are constantly complaining about the shortage of domestics may derive some satisfaction from the news that girl migrants arriving at the farm school at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, are to be trained particularly as country domestic workers. When the girls reach 14 or 15, and as soon as there are sufficient numbers, a special domestic training centre will be established at the farm. At this centre the girls will be taught dressmaking and laundry work, and will be given a general home training under special teachers. In two years' time it is expected that the farm will be housing the maximum number of migrants, '260. Although the first batch of girls has just arrived, a number of boys have been at the farm since last July and they are still keen about their future as farmeu in Australia. The eldest boy is 14. ajid he still has two years of farm life ahead of him before he goes out into real Australian life as the pioneer of the school.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23071, 23 June 1938, Page 10
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