SETTLING ON THE LAND
NO APPEAL FOR OTAGO YOUTHS [ Per Preu Association. ] DUNEDIN, April 19. According to the vocational officer, Mr Conly, settling on the land holds no appeal for Otago youths. “In fact,” he said, “one wonders whether the next generation of farmers will come from the North Island.” Mr Conly considered that farmers were partly to blame since they were regularly announcing that theirs was a hopeless and bankrupt calling, so that parents were loth to allow their sons to enter such calling. Mr Conly pointed to the difference in Auckland where indenture and compulsory part saving of wages enabled a trainee to get sufficient capital presently to ow n a farm. He stated that the northern committee had placed 2200 boys in farm work. “Prospective ownership seems to be the crux of the problem,” he said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 8
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