FLOCK HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 6

FLOCK HOUSE

AN EXTENSION POSSIBLE SUGGESTION BY MINISTER ( Per Press Association. 1 PALMERSTON N., Feb. 10. “It Flock House proves its value as an agricultural training centre, as I have the utmost confidence it will, it may mean that further institutions of a similar nature will have to be established. That, however, is for future consideration, but it does emphasise (he necessity for proceeding upon sound lines so that experience gained may be turned to the best advantage in meeting national needs in connection with primary production.” This statement was made by the Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, at a ceremony at the Flock House station, near Bulls, to-day when the estate was formally handed □ver to the Government, which recently acquired it. "By the Flock House fund we trained and placed in employment on farms and stations nearly 1050 yuong people in addition to 45 still in residence at Flock House, and all these young people look back on their months at Flock House as among the happiest of their lives, and very many of them as the start of a prosperous career,” stated Mr. T. R. Lees, managing trustee. “Over 700 of these young people are our own wards, who can still look to the trustees for help and advice as long as the fund is in existence. Further, we are handing over to the Crown a very fine farming property which we have greatly improved and developed on sound lines and which is capable of still greater development.”