SHEEPOWNERS’ FUND.

Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 13

SHEEPOWNERS’ FUND.

EXTENDING ITS SCOPE. PALMERSTON NORTH, May 5. The Hon. Mr Newman, chairman of the trustees of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Fund, which for some time past has been successfully training the sons of British seamen at Flock House, has received advice as the result of which the work of the fund is likely to be greatly extended in the direction of training the orphaned daughters of British seamen as well. Last month Mr Newman wrote to the president of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation stating that he understood there was in the Treasury, and likely to bo overlooked, a sum of approximately £20,000 standing to the credit of the* undistributed surplus of the wool profits fund, which is the property of those New Zealand sheepfarmers whose wool was sold to the Imperial Government during the seasons 1916-17 to 1919-20 inclusive He felt that the sheepfarmers of the dominion would appreciate the whole of the money being banded over to the trustees of the fund, who desired most urgently to extend the work to the girls, and give the orphaned daughters of British seamen the same chance in life on New Zealand farms a« was now given to boys. Mr Newman received in, reply a let to stating that at a meeting of the executive it was unanimously agreed to support the proposal, with the suggestion that, if possible, the extra money for an extension of the present work of training boys be earmarked for training orphaned girls with a view to fitting them for some form of service in the dominion. It was felt by the executive of the federation that the money would be well spent in this direction. and would result in an advantage to the girls themselves, and to the wives of New Zealand farmers generally, through providing additional domestic help, the shortage of which was s’ h an acute problem upon New Zealand farms and stations to-day.