FUTURE OF FLOCK HOUSE

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1930, Page 11

FUTURE OF FLOCK HOUSE

DOMINION’S OPPORTUNITY ROOM FOR NEW ZEALAND’S YOUTH. E. .NEWMAN MAKES SUGGESTIONS’ By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston N., Last Night. In response to many requests Mr. Edward Newman, chairman of the Flock House Trustees, has furnished the following official statement: — The trustees are fully in accord with the views expressed unanimously \ throughout the Dominion and overseas that Flock House should be continued as a farm training centre for youths and will do all in their power to facilitate that course. Whether the benefits of th j sound foundation laid at Flock House are to be secured for other overseas British boys and girls or for New Zeal' ■ d born boys and girls is a matter for the people of New Zealand and z tho Government to decide. The simple facts are that the transitional stage will commence during the ctming year and the opportunity for extending the scheme'in any desired direction has arrived. The girls’ Flock House has how’ in residence the last party of daughters of sailors killed or disabled during the war, and it will be available early next year for training New Zealand girls. , ■ Flock House Station will be required for boys for some three or four years, but the transitional period is so closely at hand that the numbers of the present class of trainees will begin to diminish next year, and will diminish increasingly each succeeding year, so that an equivalent number of trainees from a different section of the community could be econoriiicallv received and trained. A great desire has been expressed fro-’ England for the continuance of the work for British boys, and a considerable offer of finance has been made, but the trustees recognise, that when the special work for which the Flock Hous s were established has been completed the opportunity should be given to the New Zealand Government to take advantage <>f the organisation for the benefit of New Zealand born boys and Bv an extraordinary process of reaseninp- and legal enactments the funds of the societv have been heavily mulcted in taxation (£38,277) during the process of this national work, but the subscribers no doubt feel that this grievance ) would be somewhat removed Jf the moneys taken by the State in this way were used for the continuance and development of the woi% The trustees compatible with the terms of their trust, assure the Government and the public tha they will do all in their power, to assist in' making Flock House a national institution.