WAIKATO WINTER SHOW
FARM SCHOOL FOR 50 BOYS INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURE [FROM OUR OWN CORRKSI'ONDBNT] HAMILTON, Friday Following on the success of the farm school held at the Waikato Winter Show last year, when 50 boys from district high schools in many parts of the Auckland Province wore given an opportunity to study recent agricultural developments, it has been decided that a further oO boys should be the guests of the show association during show week, from May 30 to June 8. The boys will bo given instruction in agriculture, wool production, livestock selection, farm machinery and native plants. 11l addition' they will be taken to various farms and other places <Jf interest in the district. Special instructors, who are fully qualified in their particular branches of the farming industry, will give the lectures, using the array of exhibits at the show for the purpose. Invitations have also boon extended to primary school children throughout (lie province to attend the show. Organised groups of children will bo admitted to the exhibition free and will be the guests of the show association to luncheon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 12
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