FLOCK HOUSE STATION

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3827, 30 October 1936, Page 7

FLOCK HOUSE STATION

AUTHORITY FOR PURCHASE BY THE STATE. Authority for the sale of Flock House station by the trustees of the New Zealand Sheepowners' Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund and its acquisition by the Crown is contained in a clause introduced in the House of Representatives for inclusion in the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill. The trustees own some 8261 acres, known as Flock House station, on which, from 1924, boys and girls, tho dependants of British seamen killed or incapacitated during the Great War, have been trained in all branches of farm work. From 1932 the trustees have undertaken similartraining for the dependants of New Zealand soldiers killed or incapacitated during the said war. This extension of the benefits of training at Mock House to dependants of New Zealand soldiers was resultant upon tho complete cessation of immigration in 1932. The trustees now consider that the original objects of the fund should be adhered to, and for this reason, and because the trustees have little available capital to continue to carry on Flock House station, they desire to sell the station to the Government as a going concern. The sale will enable the trustees to convert their assets into liquid capital so that they may more satisfactorily pursue the objects ot the trust. Authority is, however, required to enable the trustees to sell and to enable the Crown to acquire the station, and the clause gives the necessary powers in that respect.