WELL-TO-DO MIGRANTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17236, 16 April 1930, Page 11

WELL-TO-DO MIGRANTS

NOT ATTRACTED TO AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, April 3. After being burnt down 18 months ago, the Australian Farms Training College,, Lynford Hall, at Mundfork, .Norfolk, was not rebuilt. Established in 1925 by the late Mr. Tilden Smith, tho college was in existence tor three yeai'3, its purpose being to train for Australian 'rural conditions British youths of means —Great Public schoolboys and university students. The success of the college was meagre. It certainly trained the lads well for their new life, and contributed its quota to every State of the Commonwealth, but their numbers were fewer than could h.4ve been desired. In addition, the attendance dwindled until in the end there were but two students The principal of the college during its three years of activity, Mr. H. W. Potts, who returned to Sydney by the Ballarat, explained that the type of intending immigrant desired at the college grew increasingly hard to attract. Wealthy parents became increasingly loth to send their sons to Australia as settlers, preferring any other Dominion. In fact, some of the college students eventually went to other Dominions. In regard to this feeling against settling in Australia, Mr. Potts was reticent. “You can say R was due to conditions in Australia, he conceded. “At any rate, that.is why the college was not reopened after tne burning of the hall.”