PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS

Southland Times, Issue 20207, 18 June 1927, Page 4

PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS

IMMIGRANTS FROM ENGLAND. A SUCCESSFUL SCHEME. (Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth, June 16. Three years ago, the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce inaugurated an English public school boys’ immigration scheme. The results of the scheme were reviewed at to-night’s annual meeting when it was reported that of the boys who had come out, only three per cent, had failed, whilst ten per cent, failing on the land had made good in town positions. These English boys who had spent the last year of their schooling at the New Plymouth High School and followed the agricultural course specially arranged for them, had all been successful when drafted on to the land. Local farmers had loyally co-operated with the chamber in the work. It wag mentioned that some of the boys had already gone into partnership with local farmers whilst others had taken up share milking and the parents of some of the boys had come out with a view to starting their sons on the land. The success of the scheme was due largely to the fact that a personal interest was taken in the boys’ welfare and close touch with the farmers’ trainees maintained by the chamber which now has nearly 200 under its care.