FLOCK HOUSE.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17733, 5 November 1929, Page 8

FLOCK HOUSE.

Another successful year to the credit of Flock House is recorded in the report and discussion at the annual meeting of the subscribers. It is interesting to note, in appreciating the value of this institution to the State, that during the past year four of the young men who who had been in training have been enabled as the result of their own thrift and the assistance of the Trustees to establish themselves on farms of their own. Flock House has now been a going concern for a

sufficient number of years to make it possible for an increasing number of the young men of the earlier drafts to do likewise, and the Trustees hope that this will be accomplished. In addition, a large number of young • men and women who have been .trained at Flock House have now been merged in the rural population as farm workers in various parts of the country. Certain Labour unions have passed resolutions urging the Government to discourage the bringing of British boys to New Zealand under such schemes. One imagines, however, that public opinion would strongly resent any political interference with the work of this valuable institution.