FUTURE FARMERS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4219, 4 December 1939, Page 5

FUTURE FARMERS

GROUP PLAN EXPLAINED. SETTLEMENT BOARD’S SCHEME. At the quarterly meeting of the Auckland Council of Young Farmers’ clubs in Hamilton on Wednesday an outline of the conditions under which young men can take up farming under the Auckland Youths’ Farm Settlement Board’s scheme was given by Dr H. E. Annett, who explained that the whole aim of the scheme was to form groups of youths wishing to become farmers on their own land. He said that they would be financed and settled at the expiration of approximately five years from the formation of the groups. Some members of the first group, said Dr Annett, had nearly completed their apprenticeship and altogether the group had been very successful. Following a discussion of other methods of settling young men on the land, a committee was appointed to submit a report on the most workable scheme. GRANTING OF BURSARIES. Advice received from the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, indicated that the Minister had agreed to allot bursaries, tenable at an agricultural college and available to members of young farmers’ clubs. The council was asked to submit its views on the conditions attaching to the bursaries. A committee was appointed to consider suggestions for the Minister.