FARM CADETS
“NOT INDENTURED LABOUR,” “This is not indentured labour,” remarked Mr H. Thompson, Undersecretary For Immigration, to a “Star” representative on board the lonic as the steamer came alongside the Queen’s wharf, bringing, among the hundreds of immigrants on hoard, a party of eight youths destined for various farms throughout the Dominion. The lads to whom Mr Thompson's remark applied are the harbingers of a large number of young Britishers whom the New Zealand Government Hopes to bring out to the Dominion. They are to be placed on farms selected on the recommendation of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, and will be the wards of the Immigration Department until they have become experienced enough to take up farms of their own. All of them have sufficient capital to buy land when they are ready to do 60.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11784, 21 March 1924, Page 4
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