EMPIRE FARM SCHOOLS
TRAINING BOYS AND GIRLS. PRINCE’S CHEQUE OPENS FUND. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, June 14. The Prince of Wales’s cheque opened the Child Emigration Society’s appeal for £lOO,OOO to establish three Empire farm schools similar to the Fairbridge School in Western Australia. The Prince of Wales expressed the opinion that the system of training boys for farm work and girls for domestic work had proved the only form of migration which was able to function in the depression years, and the advisability of its extension throughout the Empire was unchallenged. The British Government was financially assisting, while Canada had granted permission to establish the next school in British Columbia. CHEQUE FOR £lO,OOO. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, June 14. The chairman of the Child Emigration Society announces that the Prince of Wales has given £lO,OOO to head the list of
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Southland Times, Issue 22351, 16 June 1934, Page 5
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145EMPIRE FARM SCHOOLS Southland Times, Issue 22351, 16 June 1934, Page 5
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