YOUNG FARMERS.
Unemployed Boys To Be Trained. Unemployed boys who have a liking for farming can now obtain training upon a 32-acre farm on Avondale Road, which has been leased by the Christchurch Boys’ Unemployment Committee. Operations will begin next week. Mr F. L. Patterson has been appointed farm manager, and a farm committee will watch developments. • The farm will carry cows and later Angora rabbits. In reporting to this effect at the meeting of the Boys’ Employment Commitee yesterday afternoon, Mr W. M’Allister said that Mr T. Horn, a practical farmer, had been included on the Farm Committee. Arrangements for obtaining the stock and plant necessary had been left with the agricultural expert, Mr A: W. G. Lipscomb. The farm will be commenced with about six boys, who would return to their homes each night. As soon as the first trainees had had some experience. they would be drafted on to private farms, and would be replaced by other boys. The lease of the farm was for three years.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 10
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