YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUBS

Opunake Times, 22 August 1947, Page 4

YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUBS

INTEREST IN COLLEGES REHABILITATION IMPETUS Members of the Young Farmers’ Clubs are becoming more and more interested in New Zealand’s agricultural colleges. Reasons for this heightened interest are many, but chief among them are the impetus given by the colleges to the agricultural rehabilitation of ex-servicemen, and the broadened outlook of the colleges in face of the persistent post-war demand for more farming education of a technical nature. The fact that, almost to aman, ex-servicemen have spoken highly of the short courses provided for them by arrangement with the Rehabilitation • Board, has done much to caqse farmers, young and old alike, to l stop, look and listen—for the ex-ser-vicemen going through the colleges have been graded in their own districts as having had adequate practical experience, and war service has tended to make them abhor any form of humbug and be perhaps the most highly critical section of the community. Praise from them, therefore, is praise indeed. Over 1,300 of these men will, by the end of this year, have passed through Massey Agricultural College since the rehabilitation scheme was commenced. Further indication of Young Farmers’ interest is their decision to erect at each college a war memorial taking the form of accommodation which can be used by their members for attendance at short courses.