EMPIRE SETTLEMENT
PROSPECTIVE JUVENILE EMIGRANTS SUITABLE TRAINING THE KEYNOTE. \ LEAGUE OF BOY FARMERS PROPOSED. Pr«M Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 26. ’ A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph suggests the formation of a League of Boy Farmers on the lines of the Boy Scout movement as a means of imparting agricultural interest and knowledge in prospective juvenile emigrants to the dominions. Mr Plant (secretary of the Overseas Settlement Committee) comments that provision for suitable training is the keynote to the whole problem of Empire settlement. Nearly half a million boys and girls leave British schools yearly searching for occupation. Sir Robert Baden-Powell commends the scheme. He points out that the danger is that unless the interest of boys is really aroused and a taste for farming formed they are likely to drift to the cities.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18515, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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136EMPIRE SETTLEMENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 18515, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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