EDUCATION OF BOYS.
IN CAMP AT ALMADALE. At the present time there are 28 lads in camp on Mr E. Short's farm at Almadale. The boys are under Mr Grant and Mr Banner, of the Wanganui Education Department, and they are receiving instruction in the management and development of horses, cattle and sheep. Yesterday morning Mr Short was to take the lads to Parorangi to give them instruction in sheep, and Mr Hector Booth and Mr Hugh Burrell were also to spend the morning there on the, same errand. On Thursday afternoon Mr Fred Pirani (chairman of the Board) Mr G. D. Braik (Director of Education) and Mr W. F. Bramwell visited Almadale, and watched a lesson on draught horses being given by Mr Short's manager (Mr Carruthers). The lads paid strict attention, to the instruction, taking copious not s and handling the horses to ascertain . the extent of their knowledge. A judging competition of yearlings was held, ten geldings being selected for the test. The judging of two boys—Be!(it, of Feilding, and Delves, of Gonville coincided with that )f the instructor in regard to the best three horses, and no fewer than 14 ol the students picked two out of the three best.
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Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 198, 25 March 1913, Page 4
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204EDUCATION OF BOYS. Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 198, 25 March 1913, Page 4
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