BOY MIGRANTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6573, 7 February 1925, Page 3

BOY MIGRANTS.

FARMERS’ UNION SCHEME EXCELLENT TYPE OF LADS COMING OUT SCHEME “A GREAT SUCCESS” Good Avork is being done by the New Zealand Farmers’’Union in settling English public school boys on farms in the Dominion (says the N.Z. Times). Under the scheme of the Union, 109 boys have been brought out from England to date, and a further draft of 13 lads will arrive in New Zealand next month.

A report on the scheme, Avhich has been compiled by the union secretary, Colonel Pow, states that, on ' the whole, the scheme has been a great success. From reports received from farmers and from the boys themselves it would appear that there was every prospct of the majority of the lads becoming first-class settlers, and many of them would'no doubt take up land on their own account when they felt confident that they had received sufficient training. With a view to promoting thrift, the boys on arrival were recommended to open a Post Office Savings Bank account. Colonel Pow was pleased to be able to state that transfers when arranged had been made to the satisfaction of the boys. In this connection he mentioned that some farmers did not appear to understand the term “Public School Boy,” being, apparently, under the impression that the boys came from schools of the kind known as primary schools in . New Zealand. Continued interest was being shown in the boys’ welfare by the Headmasters’ Association, and more especially by those representatives in Auckland and Oamaru. He felt sure that the Dominion would have no difficulty in obtaining an increased number of public school boy migrants for settlement on farms in New Zealand.