SETTLING ON LAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1076, 13 September 1930, Page 16

SETTLING ON LAND

FACILITIES NEEDED FOR TRAINING OF BOYS SCHOOL SITES SUGGESTED Placing boys in positions where .they could b© properly trained after leafing school, with the view to assuming proprietorship of farms later, is a problem which faces the New Zealand Land Settlement and Development League. It was discussed at a me**-" ing of the league held 3*esterday. According to Mr. W. J. Holdswortiu bo3s entering professions could trained at universities, but there vaS no adequate training institute for b°> s going on the land. When the Auc ' land Mental Hospital was removed Kingseat the old site at Avon might be used as a training school centre. . _s v# “The aim of the league is to ® t. boys a taste and not a bias ,tL lp cultural work.” said Mr. X. G. Grib l The now disused military camp sit Hopuhopu might be used for preli r!l? er e ary training purposes and from tn the boys could be drafted into * cadet branch of the league's propo group settlement scheme. viand It was stated that the Auckiana Chamber of Commerce and the land Rotary Club would assist league’s land proposals.