LAND SETTLEMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 5

LAND SETTLEMENT

SALVATION ARMY SCHEME ACTIVITY AT PUTARURU (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oris day. Following a recent visit oii Couimissioiier Cunningham, territorial lcaUei of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, to the farm of the organisation iJ> Patsruru, an announcement *s~ made from army headquarters here that a big development may shortly be axpecied which will put this venture of the organisation on a sounder financial footing, and thus bear more of the co-»t of rearing, educating, and fitting the hundred or" so boys there to play ! hen.' part iii life worthily. Tho commissioner outlines Jiis scheme as being in the direction of improving pasture lands as rapidly as posdbk. Half of the area, which is pumk,e, Las been cleared, and is now carrying ixcollent rye and clover, affording good pasturage for a herd of cattle and 14& milking cows. He also aims at estabiisni.ig a herd of purebred Friesian cattle and a herd of milk-strain Jerseys. A held of purebred Berkshiro pigs is also part of the stocking scheme. The commissioner says he found nearly JLOO fine boys, ranging from 6 to 16 years, on the farm. All are being_.educated and trained in agriculture. Thirty had just ariived from Home. "In speaking to them,' says the commissioner, "I urged them to take their coats off, roll up their shirt sleeves, and work, work, work, for that is the only royal road to success in life."